I am proud to be an American Citizen.

- Robert Purvis

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave,…

- Robert Purvis

. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have bee…

- Robert Purvis

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

- Robert Purvis