- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go to the depot here, now, and what will you see? A well-dressed colored lady, with her little children by her side, whom she has brought up intelligently and with refinement, as much so as white children, comes to the cars, and where is she shown to? Into the smoking car, where men are cursing, swearing, spitting on the floor.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.
- Establishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hold that establishing mixed schools will not harm the white race. I am their friend. I said in Mississippi, and I say here, and I say everywhere, that I would abandon the Republican party if it went into any measures of legislation really damaging to any portion of the white race, but it is not in the Republican party to do that.
- Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sedulously refrained from doing anything that would incite slaves to run away from their masters.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is evident that it is the belief of Christian people in this country and in all other enlightened portions of the world that as a nation, we have passed through a severe ordeal - that severe judgments have been poured out upon us on account of the manner in which a poor, oppressed race was treated in this country.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020