William C. Nell Quotes (5 Quotes)

I have borne allegiance to PRINCIPLES, rather than MEN.

I yield to no one in appreciating the propriety and pertinency of every effort, on the part of Colored Americans, in all pursuits, which, as members of the human family, it becomes them to share in.

While I would not . . . detract from the credit justly due the men . . . . It was these mothers who accompanied me to the various schoolhouses, to residences of teachers and committee-men, to see the laws of the Old Bay State applied in good faith.

Any man among us, voting for their respective candidates, virtually recognizes the righteousness of their principles, and shall be held up to public reprobation as a traitor, a hissing and a byword, a pest and nuisance, and the offscouring of the earth.

Our brethren at the South should not be called slaves, but prisoners of war.