It was from beginning to end an example of love to God and love to men, of fearless scorn of injustice and fearless devotion to liberty.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “It was from beginning to end an example of love to God and love to men, of fearless scorn of injustice and fearless…”
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Grimké reflects on the profound moral commitment of the abolitionist convention.
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And politics is business, is the big business is it not, or ought it not to be the big business of all self governing peoples, who would maintain justice and freedom for themselves and transmit them unimpaired to their posterity?
There must be added to them this something else, this one thing needful to render them effective to save the blacks from the evil consequences of their race ignorance, and the whites from the evil consequences of their race prejudice.
White and black party following with white leadership is therefore the only feasible proposition, which stands any show of success as a party of opposition in that section under existing conditions.
Not at all, for they are most important, but without the ballot they are impotent to give the relief so much needed in the South.