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Robert Smalls Quotes

1839–1915 United States

Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915), born into slavery, was an American businessman, publisher, and politician.

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Good morning, sir! I've brought you some of the old United States guns, sir!

My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be equal of any people anywhere. All they need is an equal chance in the battle of life.

South Carolina Constitutional Convention (1895)

I ask that every colored man in the North who has a vote to cast would cast that vote for the regular Republican Party and thus bury the Democratic Party so deep that there will not be seen even a bubble coming from the spot where the burial took place

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