P. B. S. Pinchback Quotes (5 Quotes)

We are an element of strength and wealth too powerful to be ignored by the American People. All we need is a just appreciation of our own power and our own manhood.

This rolling in the dust this buckling to power, whether wrapped up in an individual or a party, I have long since abandoned. I strike out boldly, as if born in a desert and looking for civilization.

I demand simple justice. I am not here as beggar. I do not care so far as I am personally concerned whether you give me a seat or not. I will go back to my people and come here again.

I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth.

I am at last in a free country.