In a country where the principle of popular suffrage obtains, all successful moral movements must sometime ultimate in political action.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “In a country where the principle of popular suffrage obtains, all successful moral movements must sometime ultimate in…”
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Grimké argues that moral movements in a democracy inevitably lead to political action.
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