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Matthew Henson Quotes

1866–1955 United States

Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866 - March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary on seven voyages to the Arctic over a period of nearly 23 years. They spent a total of 18 years on expeditions together.

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I think I'm the first person to sit on the top of the world.

The ages of the wild, misgiving mystery of the North Pole are over, today, and forever it stands under the folds of Old Glory.

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912)

Another world's accomplishment was done and finished, and as in the past, from the beginning of history, wherever the world's work was done by a white man, he had been accompanied by a colored man.

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Matthew Henson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.