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In all this educational business the South reasons that the blacks must be kept well in the rear of the whites, because they are to remain a permanently inferior class.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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This quote highlights the deliberate efforts to maintain racial hierarchies in education, keeping Black individuals disadvantaged.
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It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.
Love was in their mouths and love was in their hearts.
This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.
Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.