I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

- Timothy Thomas Fortune

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

- Timothy Thomas Fortune

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core.

- Timothy Thomas Fortune