“The Stars and Stripes - the old flag - will float...over all these States...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].”
Francis James Grimké
American Presbyterian minister, activist, and former slave. Assisted in founding the NAACP in 1909.
(1850 - 1937)