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Poverty and experience were teaching the child what he never could have learned in a grammar-school, a certain acquaintance with himself and the world around him.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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Grimké reflects on the valuable life lessons learned through hardship rather than formal education.
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Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?
It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals--an earthquake rumbling under our feet--a mine accumulating material for a national catastrophe.
It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.
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