For that party will be able to do in the South what the Republican Party has proved itself incapable of doing, namely, of attracting to itself Southern white men in sufficient numbers to make of it a formidable party of opposition in Southern affairs.
He argues that the new Progressive party has the potential to attract Southern white voters, unlike the Republican Party.
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Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.
Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?
Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?
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.