Timothy Thomas Fortune

“The hour is approaching when the laboring classes…will recognize that they have a common cause, a common humanity, and a common enemy.”

“The white men and women of the South should get down from the delectable mountain of delusive superiority which they have climbed.”

“The color of their skin must cease to be an index to their political creed…The black men and white men of the South have a common destiny.”

“The fate of the lamb has been left to the mercy of the lion and the tiger.”

“Practically, there is no [American] law which [protects] the black man and his rights. He is, like the Irishman in Ireland, an alien in his native land.”

“It was not because the people of the nation hated slavery and oppression that they rushed upon the field of battle.”

“There are no ‘Liberators’ to‐​day, and the William Lloyd Garrisons have nearly all of them gone the way of all the world.”