“It has been the hope of every patriot that a sense of justice and of respect for the law would work a gradual cure of these flagrant evils. Surely no one supposes that the present can be accepted as a permanent condition. If it is said that these communities must work out this problem for themselves…”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Hope, Patriotism, Justice, Respect, Law
“But notwithstanding all this, in many parts of our country where the colored population is large the people of that race are by various devices deprived of any effective exercise of their political rights and of many of their civil rights. The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are…”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: country, Colored People, Race, racism, Civil Rights