Charles Lenox Remond famous quotes

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.
-- Charles Lenox Remond

#Hands #Speech #Speak

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?
-- Charles Lenox Remond

#Men #Teeth #Slave

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.
-- Charles Lenox Remond

#Character #Color #Obscure

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.
-- Charles Lenox Remond

#Mother #Book #Mind

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.
-- Charles Lenox Remond

#People #Suffering #Needs

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not going too far to say that the souls of men are the gift from language to mankind. The account of the sixth day should be written: He gave them speech, and they became souls

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.