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By Benjamin Harrison
The community that by concert, open or secret, among its citizens denies to a portion of its members their plain rights under the law has severed the only safe bond of social order and prosperity.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1889
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Benjamin Harrison's inaugural address on March 4, 1889. He is saying that a community that denies some of its members their rights under the law destroys the basis of its own order and prosperity. The issue of the day was the denial of Black citizens' civil and voting rights.