720 – “The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. To this correction I stand committed, so far as Executive influence can avail.”

–Ulysses S Grant, 18th President of the United States of America

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Source: Grant, Ulysses S. “Inaugural Address.” Speech. Washington, DC. March 04, 1873. The American Presidency Project. Online Here.

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