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We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.
— Hiram Rhodes Revels
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Hiram Rhodes Revels
politician, religious leader
1827 – 1901
Hiram Rhodes Revels was an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. Elected by the Mississippi legislature to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era, he was the first African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress.
All Quotes by Hiram Rhodes Revels
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We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.
— Hiram Rhodes Revels
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We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.
— Hiram Rhodes Revels
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While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.
— Hiram Rhodes Revels
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I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.
— Hiram Rhodes Revels
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Go to the depot here, now, and what will you see? A well-dressed colored lady, with her little children by her side, whom she has brought up intelligently and with refinement, as much so as white children, comes to the cars, and where is she shown to? Into the smoking car, where men are cursing, swearing, spitting on the floor.
— Hiram Rhodes Revels