A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else. Calvin Coolidge
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America. Bert Williams
The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out. Timothy Thomas Fortune
Your letter is received, accompanied by a newspaper clipping which discusses the possibility that a colored man may be the Republican nominee for Congress from one of the New York districts. Calvin Coolidge
The ground which a colored man occupies in this country is, every inch of it, sternly disputed. Frederick Douglass
We deem it a settled point that the destiny of the colored man is bound up with that of the white people of this country. ... We are here, and here we are likely to be. Frederick Douglass