Francis James Grimke quotes
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“History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.”
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“Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.”
-- Francis James GrimkeSource : Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”
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“A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.”
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“It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.”
-- Francis James GrimkeSource : Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”
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“When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never failed it in every crisis of its history to do his whole duty, to shed his blood freely in its behalf . . . then, and not till then, will I be heard.”
-- Francis James GrimkeSource : Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”
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“. . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down.”
-- Francis James GrimkeSource : Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”
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