Robert Smalls Quotes

“Every colored man 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.”

“I am delivering this war material including these cannons and I think Uncle Abraham Lincoln can put them to good use.”

“I can never lose sight of the fact that had it not been for the Republican Party, I would have never been an office-holder of any kind – from 1862 – to present.”

“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.”

“The Party of Lincoln which unshackled the necks of four million human beings.”

“How can I expect to keep my freedom unless I fight for it?”