Francis Grimke If the time ever comes when we shall go to pieces, it will . . . be . . . from inward corruption - from the disregard of right principles . . . from losing sight of the fact that Righteousness exalteth a nation, but that sin is a reproach to any people [Proverbs 14:34]. . . .[T]he secession of the Southern States in 1860 was a small matter with the secession of the Union itself from the great principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence, in the Golden Rule, in the Ten Commandments, in the Sermon on the Mount. Unless we hold, and hold firmly to these great fundamental principles of righteousness, . . . our Union . . . will be only a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. [Rev. Francis J. Grimke, from Equality of Right for All Citizens, Black and White, Alike, March 7, 1909, published in Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence, Alice Moore Dunbar, editor (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2000), pp. 246-247.]
Posted on: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 14:02:46 +0000
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