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Timothy Thomas Fortune

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Timothy Thomas Fortune was an American journalist, editor, and civil rights activist. Born on October 3, 1856, and died on June 2, 1928, Fortune played a significant role in the American press and civil rights movement. He founded the first national newspaper for African Americans, The Crisis, and made significant contributions to the civil rights and social justice movements of his time.

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“The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.”

Men Strong Race Bears Citizens Succeed Negative Competent

Author:Timothy Thomas Fortune

“Mental inertia is death.”

Book:T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928

Source: T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928

“We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.”

Ifs Plans Gains Dollars Enterprise Venture Pennies

Book:T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928

Source: T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928

“Our history in this country dates from the moment that restless men among us became restless under oppression and rose against it . . . Agitation, contentions, ceaseless unrest, constant aspiring -- a race so moved must prevail.”

Men Country Moments Race Moved Constant Rose Oppression Restless Contention Agitation Unrest

Book:T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928

Source: T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928

“Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.”

People Whole Government Class Diversity Ideals African American Supposed To Be Distinction Distracted Harmonious Character Education Contentious

Author:Timothy Thomas Fortune

“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.”

Should Reason Government Form Individual Republican Safe Forms Of Government Compulsory

Book:Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

Source: Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

“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.”

People Needs Should Done Higher South Higher Education Work To Be Done

Book:Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

Source: Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

“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.”

Men Should Mind May Special Educated Preparation Spoiled Illiteracy Future Work

Author:Timothy Thomas Fortune

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

Shows Law Opinion Expression Core Public Opinion Rotten Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Book:Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

Source: Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

“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.”

Men Voice South Driven Loud Loud Voices

Book:Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

Source: Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

“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.”

Men Mind Long White South White Man Corn Corny Cotton Whiteness Tassels

Book:Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

Source: Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

“We are African in origin and American in birth.”

Author:Timothy Thomas Fortune

About the Author

Born: October 3, 1856
Died: June 2, 1928
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 12

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