Sumner understand this truth, that wrong has a fatal gift of metamorphosis, its ability to change its form without losing its identity.
Archibald Henry Grimké: “Sumner understand this truth, that wrong has a fatal gift of metamorphosis, its ability to change its form without…”
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Grimké reflects on the transformative nature of wrongs in society, as understood by Sumner.
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And yet if relief is ever to come to the Negro in the South, it must come to him by the way of an opposition party, which will put an end to the political solidity of that section by introducing into it bi-party in place of its one-party…
It reaches down to the springs of fundamental social and political changes at the South in relation to its race question, and sets in motion the healing waters of its pool of Bethesda, which will in time heal it of its sickness and cleanse…
There must be added to them this something else, this one thing needful to render them effective to save the blacks from the evil consequences of their race ignorance, and the whites from the evil consequences of their race prejudice.
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.