Wanting the ballot no amount of education and wealth in the South and of agitation in the North will of themselves be able to make Southern Governments responsive to the needs and the rights of the Negro as laborer and citizen.
Grimké argues that education and wealth alone cannot ensure political representation for African Americans without the right to vote.
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Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?
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.
I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.
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