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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447999" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Negro Ballot</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can America be reckoned as the country of the free?<br>In the light of recent actions 'tis a truth that's hard to see.<br>It has taken from the Negro his protection, yea, his vote,<br>How oppressive is the finger that such cruel mandates wrote!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Equal rights are not for Negroes; they shall never have a vote,<br>To supremacy of white man shall be raised the highest note.<br>Keep the black man from the ballot and we'll treat him as we please,<br>With no means for his protection, we will rule with perfect ease.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Those are words of Southern white men, backed, it seems, by all the land,<br>From the blacks they'll take the ballot, with their rights on every hand;<br>O, the maladministration in enforcement of the ills,<br>Thus they re-enslave the Negro till their cup of evil fills.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When appeal is made to Congress for protection of a race,<br>They will promptly dodge the issue, saying,'This is not the place;<br>In the courts alone there's power to decide it for a fact,'<br>'We evade it,' says the court-room, 'Congress has the power to act.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So when Negroes cry for justice in this commonwealth of ours,<br>There is none to give an answer, none to regulate the powers,<br>Congress claims no jurisdiction, and the courts declare the same,<br>None in all this Christian nation who will face the load of shame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More than all the host of Egypt or the Canaanites of old,<br>Were the Jews when God was captain of the army, we are told.<br>Stronger than the ancient mountain of the waters of the sea,<br>Nature hastened to the rescue, making all opposers flee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though Elisha, when at Dothan, was encompassed round about,<br>By the forces of Benhadad, as he put the Jews to rout,<br>His protection came from heaven in the chariots of fire,<br>Yea, the angels and the horses told the earth of heaven's ire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When for God and fight we battle, numbers cannot make a mark,<br>For while countless millions perished, eight were saved in Noah's ark.<br>'Twas the faithful few, my readers, who were found on holy ground,<br>That were saved, while all remaining in the raging flood were drowned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tell me not of shame or failure in a just and righteous cause,<br>For the right at length will triumph in the face of wicked laws,<br>Heaven still extends protection to the weakened and oppressed,<br>Who will cry to God for succor and relief when sore distressed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, the angel still encampeth round about when Christians fear,<br>To deliver them from evil and their souls to fill with cheer.<br>With the faith of ancient Hebrews should the Negro of today,<br>Ask the Maker for the ballot, and with courage wend his way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If a fervent prayer is offered by a race ten million strong,<br>Telling of discrimination, persecution, hate, and wrong,<br>God will hasten to the rescue and the ballot will restore,<br>And reclaim for Negro manhood, equal justice evermore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lizelia+Augusta+Jenkins+Moorer">Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer</a><div class=q>
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In the light of recent actions 'tis a truth that's hard to see.
It has taken from the Negro his protection, yea, his vote,
How oppressive is the finger that such cruel mandates wrote!

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