The American is a citizen king or nothing. I can conceive of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the Negro into our social and political life as our equal. A mulatto citizenship would be too dear a price to pay even for emancipation. Some Phases of the Negro Question - Page 14by Charles Wesley Melick - 1908 - 91 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Dixon - African Americans - 1905 - 442 pages
...servile class, peon or peasant. We must assimilate or expel. The American is a citizen king or nothing. I can conceive of no greater calamity than the assimilation...be too dear a price to pay even for emancipation." "Words have no power to express my loathing for such twaddle!" cried Stoneman, snapping his great jaws... | |
| Thomas Dixon (Jr.) - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1905 - 424 pages
...servile class, peon or peasant. We must assimilate or expel. The American is a citizen king or nothing. I can conceive of no greater calamity than the assimilation...be too dear a price to pay even for emancipation." "Words have no power to express my loathing for such twaddle!" cried Stoneman, snapping his great jaws... | |
| Fred Hobson - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 312 pages
...shall continue until it is accomplished. My emancipation proclamation was linked with this plan. ... I can conceive of no greater calamity than the assimilation...be too dear a price to pay even for emancipation. . . . It was the fear of the black tragedy behind emancipation that led the South into the insanity... | |
| Barbara Chase-Riboud - Fiction - 2007 - 338 pages
...many men engaged on either side do not care for you one way or the other. He added, I could conreive of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the...Negro into our social and political life as our equal, We can never attain the ideal union our fathers dreamed ofwith millions of an alien, inferior rare... | |
| Jack Myers - Fiction - 2006 - 437 pages
...Like, yo, you coulda fooled me. . . . Rich kids, my you-know-what. Yeah, right! Cut me a break already. I can conceive of no greater calamity than the assimilation...Negro into our social and political life as our equal . . . assimilation is neither possible nor desirable. Abraham Lincoln, after signing the Emancipation... | |
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