Timothy Thomas Fortune Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Education

  Tags in People

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Man

• 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

  Topics in Education, Work

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

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Public Opinion

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black And White

• 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.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Republican

• We are African in origin and American in birth.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Birth

Timothy Thomas Fortune (7)

Birth:	3rd October, 1856
Death:	2nd June, 1928
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anchor, Editor, Journalist, Leader, Publisher, Writer

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