Discontent under such oppressive conditions is sure to arise among the colored people, and this because of their growth and of the existence of the hard and fast lines within which this growth must go on.
He predicts that discontent will arise among colored people due to oppressive conditions.
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On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.
He could not hold his peace; his message he was compelled to deliver in the ears of the nation whether its leaders would hear or forbear.
It should make this a day of fasting and prayer, not of boisterous merriment and idle pageantry--a day of great lamentation, not of congratulatory joy.
My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.