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The grand lesson he had learned, than which there is none greater, that beneath diversities of race, color, creed, language, there is the one human principle, which makes all men kin.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “The grand lesson he had learned, than which there is none greater, that beneath diversities of race, color, creed…”
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Grimké emphasizes the fundamental human connection that transcends differences among people.
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