Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Purvis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American activist Robert Purvis.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Robert Purvis

Robert Purvis was an American abolitionist in the United States. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was likely educated at Amherst Academy, a secondary school in Amherst, Massachusetts. He spent most of his life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1833 he helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Library Company of Colored People. From 1845–1850 he served as president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and also traveled to Britain to gain support for the movement.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
I am proud to be an American Citizen. — © Robert Purvis
I am proud to be an American Citizen.
To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!
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