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.


Black and White (1884)

Timothy Thomas Fortune Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...