Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Educator

1890-01-12

Quotes by Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

• The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

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• There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

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• Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

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• Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

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