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 GrimkeHistory is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.
Francis James Grimke. . . 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