Such a system, once firmly established, would fix the status of the blacks as a permanently inferior caste, and to that extent would render nugatory the three great amendments to the constitution.
He warns that a caste system would undermine constitutional amendments aimed at ensuring equality.
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Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.
My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.
And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.
It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.