Some morning you may wake up to find that the bone and sinew of your country is gone.... I tell you the Negro is the bone and sinew of your country and you cannot do without him


Speech. South Carolina Constitutional Convention (October 27, 1895)


Some morning you may wake up to find that the bone and sinew of your country is gone.... I tell you the Negro is the bone and sinew of your country...

Some morning you may wake up to find that the bone and sinew of your country is gone.... I tell you the Negro is the bone and sinew of your country...

Some morning you may wake up to find that the bone and sinew of your country is gone.... I tell you the Negro is the bone and sinew of your country...

Some morning you may wake up to find that the bone and sinew of your country is gone.... I tell you the Negro is the bone and sinew of your country...