Archibald Henry Grimké: “To such an unconquerable will, to such an invincible faith obstacles vanish; the impossible becomes the attainable.”

That the founder of the new political party, as a practical man, should discriminate between colored men with a vote and colored men without a vote seems to me to be altogether natural, to grow, in fact, out of the necessities of every…

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.

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.

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.