Hubert Harrison Quotes

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Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains,... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.

Hubert Harrison
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity.

Hubert Harrison
Out of the bosom of the Common People rise the sources of our literature and art, and the real, living virile society is the genuine life they live. Divorced from that, art is finical and literature flabby and what is called "society" becomes only the drumming of drones. It is better to have their good opinion when you are dead than the blessing of the Brahmins while you live.

Hubert Harrison
The destiny of the American Negro lies in the future of America....While the racial heart of the American Negro will always beat in response to the call of the blood, he recognizes that he is part and parcel of the American civilization. It is here that he has been the burden-bearer; having borne the burden and heat of the day he intends to receive the wages due him here for that work.

Hubert Harrison
It is easy to win applause and approval among our people by charging every one of our shortcomings up to the white people. But, just the same, it isn't true. For instance: the white people, instead of being responsible for color prejudice among us, have done their best to discourage it by calling us all by the same contemptuous epithets and by lynching and jim crowing us impartially.

Hubert Harrison