Archibald Henry Grimké: “The present outlook for that race is gloomy and depressing, and this gloom and depression are nation-wide.”

And this one thing needful, I believe, the Progressive Party brings to the solution of the problem, and that it formed the underlying motive and the statesmanlike purpose of the action at Chicago last August of Theodore Roosevelt.

Colonel Roosevelt, as the leader of the new party, recognized at his full political value the Negro in states where his vote is counted, and perceived the very slight value, potential and actual, as a party asset of the Negro in states…

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.

That colored men with the ballot should be rated in terms of the political game higher than other colored men who have it not, violates no rule of business ethics.