The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out.… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it . .… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government,… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
