It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual. — 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, we will be a distracted, contentious people. — 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
