I think, though, that the opportunity to freely exercise such political rights will not come in any large degree through outside or artificial forcing, but will be accorded to the Negro by the Southern white people themselves, and that they will protect him in the exercise of those rights.
In his autobiography, Washington outlines his view that political rights for Black people in the South would be granted by white Southerners, rather than through external pressure.
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