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Francis James Grimke Quotes

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Francis James Grimke
Race, Prejudice, Racism And Prejudice
Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

Francis James Grimke
Men, Tests, Pocketbooks

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 Grimke
Appreciation, Government, Blood
Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

Francis James Grimke
Order, People, Example

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

Francis James Grimke
Men, Soul, Wrecks
Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

. . . 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 Grimke
Emancipation, Doomed, Proclamation
Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

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