Archibald Henry Grimké: “I am tired of words, tired of hearing strong things said, where there…”

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I am tired of words, tired of hearing strong things said, where there is no heart to carry them out.

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Archibald Henry Grimké

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Grimké expresses frustration with empty rhetoric in social justice movements.

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Lay not down your weapons until honorable terms are obtained.

At any rate they should hear what was resting upon his soul with the weight of a great woe, the force of a supreme command.

It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.

I was too proud to beg, and ashamed to borrow.

Archibald Henry Grimké: “I am tired of words, tired of hearing strong things said, where there is no heart to carry them out.”