“The community that by concert, open or secret, among its citizens denies to a portion of its members their plain rights under the law has severed the only safe bond of social order and prosperity.”
More from Benjamin Harrison
“We have not attained an ideal condition. Not all of our people are happy and prosperous;…”
“The emancipation proclamation was heard in the depths of the earth as well as in the sky;…”
“It has been the hope of every patriot that a sense of justice and of respect for the law…”
“The colored people did not intrude themselves upon us. They were brought here in chains…”