Archibald Henry Grimké: “The great riot gave those young men their first summons to enter the…”

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The great riot gave those young men their first summons to enter the service of freedom.

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Archibald Henry Grimké

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Grimké describes how a significant riot inspired young men to commit to the cause of freedom.

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Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?

But ignorance is a breeder of crime just as poverty is.

I have always supposed that its spirit was directly opposed to everything in the shape of fraud and oppression.

Under it we have the double moral standard and the double legal standard operating throughout that section with a vengeance.

Archibald Henry Grimké: “The great riot gave those young men their first summons to enter the service of freedom.”