Carolina Quotes
There can be no middle ground between justice and injustice, between the citizen and the serf.
Charles W. Chesnutt Carolinian
Source
"The Disfranchisement of the Negro," in The Negro Problem (New York: James Pott & Company, 1903)
- form
- essay
- work
- The Disfranchisement of the Negro
- year
- 1903
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“There can be no middle ground between justice and injustice,…” Charles W. Chesnutt. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-58C7AF33B3. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/58c7af33b3
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