"A government which cannot protect its humblest citizens from outrage and injury is unworthy of the name and ought not to command the support of a free people."
— Charles E. Nash

January 1, 1970

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Members of the United States House of RepresentativesSoldiersAfrican AmericansRepublican Party (United States) politiciansPeople from Louisiana
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As quoted in Congressional Record, House, 44th Cong., 1st sess. (7 June 1876): pp. 3,667–3,668