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Quotation by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
What I ask of American Christianity is not to show us more creeds, but more of Christ; not more rites and ceremonies, but more religion glowing with love and replete with life,—religion which will be to all weaker races an uplifting power, and not a degrading influence. Jesus Christ has given us a platform of life and duty from which all oppression and selfishness is necessarily excluded. While politicians may stumble on the barren mountains of fretful controversy and ask in strange bewilderment, "What shall we do with the weaker races?" I hold that Jesus Christ answered that question nearly two thousand years since. "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them."
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911), African American suffragist and rights advocate. As quoted in Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life, part 3, by Bert James Loewenberg and Ruth Bogin (1976).
From her famous speech delivered on February 23, 1891, to the National Council of Women of the United States: "Duty to Dependent Races."
From her famous speech delivered on February 23, 1891, to the National Council of Women of the United States: "Duty to Dependent Races."
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