Timothy Thomas Fortune Quotes
- 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…
- 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…
- I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need…
- Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men…
- Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.
- The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no…
- The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn…
- We are African in origin and American in birth.