Archibald Henry Grimké: “The influence of this superb woman was a lasting power for truth and righteousness in the son's stormy life.”

And politics is business, is the big business is it not, or ought it not to be the big business of all self governing peoples, who would maintain justice and freedom for themselves and transmit them unimpaired to their posterity?

And yet if relief is ever to come to the Negro in the South, it must come to him by the way of an opposition party, which will put an end to the political solidity of that section by introducing into it bi-party in place of its one-party…

It reaches down to the springs of fundamental social and political changes at the South in relation to its race question, and sets in motion the healing waters of its pool of Bethesda, which will in time heal it of its sickness and cleanse…

That colored men with the ballot should be rated in terms of the political game higher than other colored men who have it not, violates no rule of business ethics.