The South, as we have seen, has succeeded most thoroughly in depriving the Negro in its midst of any voice in its governments and it has shut him out of state offices, and now thanks to President Taft, has at last succeeded in depriving him of holding federal office in its midst likewise.
Grimké describes the systematic exclusion of African Americans from political offices in the South, exacerbated by presidential policies.
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With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery.
My friends were prodigal of pity, but of nothing else.
I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.
And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.