Goal
The main goal in creating these acts was to improve conditions for blacks, and freed slaves. The main target was the Ku Klux Klan, a racial group, targeting blacks and later other groups. Although this act was meant to fight against the KKK and help blacks, and freedmen, many states were reluctant to take extreme actions for several reasons. Some politicians at the state and federal levels were members of the klan, or didn’t have enough strength to fight them. Another goal of the acts were to achieve national unity, and create a country where all races and genders were considered equals.
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Famous quotes containing the word goal:
“Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins of will,
Defects of doubt, and taints of blood;”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“To achieve the larger goal of teaching her children consideration of others, a mother can tolerate some frustration of her own wishes, she can delay having what she wants, she can be flexible enough to compromise. And this is exactly what her child must also learn: that it is possible to survive frustration, it is possible to wait for what he wants, it is possible to compromise without capitulating.”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)