American - Politician | September 27, 1827 - January 16, 1901
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
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I sedulously refrained from doing anything that would incite slaves to run away from their masters.
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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.
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I got colored mechanics in the United States Navy Yard for the first time.
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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.
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I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.
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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.
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