Timothy Thomas Fortune Quotes

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Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

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 the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out.

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 bloom into whiteness.

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 elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

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 be educated with special reference to the work.

Timothy Thomas Fortune
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.

Timothy Thomas Fortune
To tell a man he is free when he has neither money nor the opportunity to make it is simply to mock him. To tell him he has no master when he cannot live except by permission of the man who under favorable conditions, monopolizes all the land, is to deal in the most tantalizing contradiction of terms.

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, contentions, ceaseless unrest, constant aspiring -- a race so moved must prevail.

Timothy Thomas Fortune