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> [The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/the-race-cannot-succeed-nor-build-strong-citizens-until-we-have-a/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

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## More by Timothy Thomas Fortune

> [Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/our-history-in-this-country-dates-from-the-moment-that-restless-men/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

> [It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/it-is-not-safe-in-the-republican-form-of-government-that-clannishness/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

> [Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/men-may-be-spoiled-by-education-even-as-they-are-spoiled-by/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

> [Mental inertia is death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/mental-inertia-is-death/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

> [The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/the-white-men-of-the-south-had-better-make-up-their-minds-that-the/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

> [We are African in origin and American in birth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/we-are-african-in-origin-and-american-in-birth/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

> [The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/the-race-cannot-succeed-nor-build-strong-citizens-until-we-have-a/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

> [Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/ours-is-supposed-to-be-a-government-in-which-classes-and-distinctions/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

> [I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/i-do-not-inveigh-against-higher-education-i-simply-maintain-that-the/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

> [The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/the-colored-man-is-in-the-south-to-stay-there-he-will-not-leave-it/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

> [Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/mob-law-is-the-most-forcible-expression-of-an-abnormal-public-opinion/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

> [We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-thomas-fortune/we-must-learn-to-lean-upon-ourselves-we-must-learn-to-plan-and/)

[Timothy Thomas Fortune](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-thomas-fortune/)

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