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This is the inevitable fate of a ballotless race or class in an industrial democracy like ours.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgThis is the inevitable fate of a ballotless race or class in an industrial democracy like ours.
Grimké emphasizes the dire consequences of being a disenfranchised race in a democratic society.
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On every hand over against his paper rights as a citizen, the Negro faces facts which make his citizenship seem like a snare and a delusion.
It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.
Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.
I would not take the word of a Southern Court on this point.