Thomas Garrett Quote

I rejoice that I have lived to see this day, when the colored people of this favored land, by law, have equal privileges with the most favored. And I have faith to believe that ere long equal justice will be granted to the poor Indians and the Chinese.

Letter published in The Liberator, when the 15th Amendment passed on March 30, 1870, as quoted in Station Master on the Underground Railroad : The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett (2005) by James A. McGowan, p. 194

I rejoice that I have lived to see this day, when the colored people of this favored land, by law, have equal privileges with the most favored. And I ...

I rejoice that I have lived to see this day, when the colored people of this favored land, by law, have equal privileges with the most favored. And I ...

I rejoice that I have lived to see this day, when the colored people of this favored land, by law, have equal privileges with the most favored. And I ...

I rejoice that I have lived to see this day, when the colored people of this favored land, by law, have equal privileges with the most favored. And I ...