Timothy Thomas Fortune

“The capacity of the Afro-American is not a moot question. It is a settled fact.”

“To be a voter and not to vote is to be a traitor to the cause of liberty.”

“We have been patient, but patience has ceased to be a virtue.”

“The Afro-American is not a beggar, he is a creditor.”

“Race prejudice is the most unreasonable and unreasoning of all the passions to which the human mind is a prey.”

“The colored man will be rated at his own valuation.”

“We have been so long in the habit of being led by others that we have learned to doubt our own capacity for leadership.”

“Oppression, organized and persistent, is not calculated to develop the highest traits of character.”

“Agitation is the basis of all reform.”

“It is a marvel to me that the Afro-American has not become a raving maniac.”

“The Republic can no more go on half free and half slave than it could before the Rebellion.”

“Let us be brave, let us be men, let us be Toussaints, and we shall be free.”

“I am an Afro-American and an editor. I have to be in hot water all the time.”

“The newspaper is the great apostle of progress.”

“The white man’s dollar is his god, and to get it he will do anything, become anything, or suffer anything.”