- We are African in origin and American in birth.
- As an American citizen, I feel it born in my nature to share in the fullest measure all that is American, feeling the full force of the fact that while we are classed as Africans, just as the Germans are classed as Germans, we are in all things American citizens, American freemen.
- 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.
T. Thomas Fortune
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