Archibald Henry Grimké: “If it sow sin it shall reap suffering and shame, and if it sow the wind it shall likewise reap the whirlwind.”

That the founder of the new political party, as a practical man, should discriminate between colored men with a vote and colored men without a vote seems to me to be altogether natural, to grow, in fact, out of the necessities of every…

Not at all, for they are most important, but without the ballot they are impotent to give the relief so much needed in the South.

But to do this, to realize on their party promises and pledges to the people, they must have votes, not mere good will which can not translate itself into effective support on election day.

There must be added to them this something else, this one thing needful to render them effective to save the blacks from the evil consequences of their race ignorance, and the whites from the evil consequences of their race prejudice.