Archibald Henry Grimke

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[Wikipedia] Archibald Henry Grimké was an African-American lawyer, intellectual, journalist, diplomat and community leader in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He graduated from freedmen's schools, Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and Harvard Law School, and served as American Consul to the Dominican Republ

Quotes by Archibald Henry Grimke

“He was at last untrammelled by constitutional conditions and limitations, was free to carry the War into Africa. “Carthago est delenda” was…

Archibald Henry Grimke

Emancipation proclamation

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“Rebellion with him cancelled the slave covenants of the Constitution and discharged the North from their further observance.”

Archibald Henry Grimke

Revolution

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“These great men had no reciprocal appreciation the one for the other. Sumner was honest in the belief that Grant knew nothing…

Archibald Henry Grimke

Gratitude

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“But the freedom won by the men of 1776 was incomplete without the freedom for which the men of 1833 were striving.”

Archibald Henry Grimke

Freedom

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“Like all of Mr. Sumner’s speeches, this speech was carefully written out and largely memorized. He was deficient in the qualities of…

Archibald Henry Grimke

Communication

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“Sumner’s entrance into the Senate was into the midst of a hostile camp. On either side of the chamber enemies confronted him.…

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“He was Anglo-Saxon enough, Puritan and student of history enough to be sensible of the efficacy of blood and iron, at times,…

Archibald Henry Grimke

History

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“He must needs stand erect, inflexible, uncompromising, an image of Puritan intolerance and Puritan grandeur. Against his granite-like character and convictions the…

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