Timothy Thomas Fortune quotes

We are African in origin and American in birth. (Timothy Thomas Fortune)
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. View quote
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. View quote
Timothy Thomas Fortune
It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual. View quote
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. View quote
Timothy Thomas Fortune
Land monopoly-in the hands of individuals, corporations or syndicates-is at bottom the prime cause of the inequalities which obtain; which desolate fertile acres turned over to vast ranches and into bonanza farms of a thousand acres, where not one family finds a habitation, where muscle and brain are supplanted by machinery, and the small farmer is swallowed up and turned into a tenant or slave. While in large cities thousands upon thousands of human beings are crowded into narrow quarters where vice festers, where crime flourishes undeterred, and where death is the most welcome of all visitors. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Timothy Thomas Fortune

Timothy Thomas Fortune

Occupation: American Writer
Born: October 3, 1856
Died: June 2, 1928
Quotes count: 8
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