Quotes by Hiram Rhodes Revels - Page 1

I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
First Time
Navy
States
Time First Time First
Colored
Mechanics
Yard
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I sedulously refrained from doing anything that would incite slaves to run away from their masters.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Masters
Incite
Slaves
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The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Obligation
Race
Colored
Fulfill
Owe
North
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While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Friends
Best
Desirable
Race
Sacrifice
Build
Colored
Must
Purest
While
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I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Great
Color
Country
Increase
Prejudice
Very
Find
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I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Missouri
Preaching
Violence
Gospel
Imprisoned
Subjected
Though
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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.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Encouragement
Becoming
Citizens
Done
Enlightened
Intelligent
My Own
Property
Race
Valuable
Wish
Acquiring
Am
Useful
Assist
True
Own
Them
See
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We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Equality
Legal
Determined
Exciting
Hard
Midst
Mississippi
Very
Am
Basis
Working
Matters
Other
Well
Settled
Shall
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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.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Government
Citizens
Color
Georgia
Loyal
Protection
Race
Southern
States
Strong
Today
Appeal
Arm
Floor
Particularly
Her
Irrespective
Southern States
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The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the South. Its borders are wide enough for all truly loyal men to find within them peace and repose from the din and discord of angry faction.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Angry
Borders
Discord
Loyal
Party
Repose
Republican Party
Wide
Din
Faction
Fain
Inflamed
Truly
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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.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Great
Country
Done
Justify
Party
Persons
Political
Prejudice
White
Against
Anything
Does
Great Political Country
Them
Colored
Exist
Generally
Great Country People
Hearts
Political Party
Sir
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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.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Battle
England
Graves
Middle
New England
Noble
Race
Representatives
Safety
Saved
Security
States
Today
Men Women Today
Colored
Countless
Women Men Today
Women Men Battle
Lean
Whom
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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.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Blood
Constitution
Framed
Georgia
Legislature
Office
Veins
African
Seat
Colored
Eighth
Elected
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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.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Doctrine
Mississippi
Race
Traveled
Everywhere
Colored
Different Parts
Favor
Parts
Tearing
Uttered
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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.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Education
Business
Appreciated
Desire
Earnest
Educational
Enjoyed
Mere
Native
Profession
School
Study
Advantages
Show
Leave
Mental
Prompted
While
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I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Aim
Former
Masters
Race
Single
White
Animate
Bear
Elevate
Record
Maintain
Sacrificing
Themselves
Toward
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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.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Belief
Enlightened
Evident
Oppressed
Poor
Portions
Race
Severe
Account
World People Poor
Nation
World Country People
Judgments
Manner
Ordeal
Passed
Poured
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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.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Car
Cursing
Refinement
Smoking
Swearing
White
Side
Brought
Colored
Floor
Lady
Little Children
Shown
Spitting
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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.
Hiram Rhodes Revels /
Abandon
Harm
Legislation
Mississippi
Party
Race
Republican Party
Said
White
Everywhere
Friend
Damaging
Establishing
Hold
Measures
Mixed
Portion
Schools
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