We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.
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 g… - 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 for the g…
- Timothy Thomas Fortune
Mental inertia is death. - Timothy Thomas Fortune
Mental inertia is death.
Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it . . . Agitation, co… - 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 . . . Agitation, co…
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 will tassel and cotton will b… - 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 corn will tassel and cotton will b…
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 should b… - 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 men should b…
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. - Timothy Thomas Fortune
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 voice in being carried into th… - 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 no voice in being carried into th…
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. - 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 negative men.
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 of, is ele… - 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 need of, is ele…
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