Henry McNeal Turner Quotes

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The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us.

Henry McNeal Turner
I used to love what I thought was the grand old flag, and sing with ecstasy about the Stars and Stripes, but to the Negro in this country the American flag is a dirty and contemptible rag.

Henry McNeal Turner
Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed their idea that the God who made them and shaped their destinies was symbolized in themselves...

Henry McNeal Turner
God has weaved and tissued variety and versatility throughout the boundless space of His creation. Because God saw fit to make some red, and some white, and some black, and some brown, are we to sit here in judgment upon what God has seen fit to do?

Henry McNeal Turner
I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg... I am here to demand my rights, and to hurl thunderbolts at the men who would dare to cross the threshold of my manhood.

Henry McNeal Turner
I know we are Americans to all intents and purposes. We are born here, raised here, fought, bled and died here, and have a thousand times more right here than hundreds of thousands of those who help to snub, proscribe and persecute us, and that is one of the reasons I almost despise the land of my birth.

Henry McNeal Turner
Neither the Republican nor Democratic party can do for the colored race what they can do for themselves. Respect Black.

Henry McNeal Turner
I hold that I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg them for my rights.

Henry McNeal Turner
There is no instance mentioned in history where an enslaved people of an alien race rose to respectability upon the same territory of their enslavement and in the presence of their enslavers, without losing their identity or individuality by amalgamation.

Henry McNeal Turner
It was indeed a time of times, and a half time, nothing like it will ever be seen again in this life. Our entrance into Heaven itself will only form a counterpart.

Henry McNeal Turner