Timothy Thomas Fortune Quotes

Timothy Thomas Fortune — American Writer born on October 03, 1856, died on June 02, 1928

Timothy Thomas Fortune was an orator, civil rights leader, journalist, writer, editor and publisher. He was the highly influential editor of the nation's leading black newspaper The New York Age, and was the leading economist in the black community. He was a long-time adviser to Booker T. Washington and the ghost writer, and the editor of Washington's first autobiography, The Story of My Life and Work. Fortune’s philosophy of militant agitation in behalf of the rights of black people laid one of the foundations of the Civil Rights Movement... (wikipedia)

We are African in origin and American in birth.

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

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.

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.

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 Quotes

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