Charles Lenox Remond Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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