Love was in their mouths and love was in their hearts.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “Love was in their mouths and love was in their hearts.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké highlights the presence of love in the hearts of freedmen after emancipation.
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White and black party following with white leadership is therefore the only feasible proposition, which stands any show of success as a party of opposition in that section under existing conditions.
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.
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