Gideon Bands for work within the race and for work without the race: a message to the colored people of the United StatesGrimké, Francis J. (Francis James)
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Gideon Bands for work within the race and for work without the race: a message to the colored people of the United States
Grimké, Francis J. (Francis James)
African Americans
We need also men and women of courage--men and women who are not afraid
to attack the evil, to speak out in condemnation of the things about
them that are demoralizing in their tendency. Another reason why it is
so difficult to make any headway in moral reforms is because there are
so many cowards in society, so many who are timid, who are afraid to
speak out, to lift up their voices for fear of hurting themselves or of
offending somebody. Cowardice has silenced many a lip, has paralyzed
many an arm that might have wrought mightily for God and truth.
We need also reliable men and women--men and women who can be depended
upon; men and women who, when the crisis comes, when the conflict
begins, will not desert, but will stand by their colors. There are so
many who blow hot and cold on moral issues, who are with you to-day and
with the enemy to-morrow.
We need also earnest men and women--men and women who are zealous in
the cause of right--heartily in favor of what is pure, lovely, and
of good report--who are not disposed to make any compromises with
evil, who are out and out in their opposition to the forces of evil
about them. And here is another reason why it is difficult to do very
much--there are so many who are lukewarm, indifferent, who don’t seem
to care whether moral reforms go on or not. If they do anything at all
it is in an indifferent, half-hearted, non-committal way.
We need also God-fearing men and women--men and women of faith--men and
women who build on God, who stand on the promises of God. One thing
we may be assured of--nothing can be effectively done for the moral
uplift of the race, for the overthrow of the forces of evil that are at
work in our midst, unless we have in every community men and women such
as I have been describing, through whom to operate as the first great
requisite.
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