| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 26927 |
| QUOTATION: | When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901), U.S. president. Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1889. Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-Third President of the United States, p. 62, Government Printing Office (1893). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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