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Benjamin Harrison Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”
— Benjamin Harrison
Tagged: Man, Coat, Economy, Equality, Balance
“I want to avoid everything that is personal and I want it understood that I am grandson of nobody.”
— Benjamin Harrison
Tagged: personal, Privacy, Understanding
“The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.”
— Benjamin Harrison, Speeches of Benjamin Harrison- Twenty-third President of the United States
Tagged: Crime, Fraud, Disfranchisement, Elector
“The colored people did not intrude themselves upon us. They were brought here in chains and held in the communities where they are now chiefly found by a cruel slave code. Happily for both races, they are now free.”
— Benjamin Harrison
Tagged: Colored People, Race, Diversity, Slavery, Freedom
“The emancipation proclamation was heard in the depths of the earth as well as in the sky; men were made free, and material things became our better servants.”
— Benjamin Harrison
Tagged: Proclamation, Freedom, Emancipation
“When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? When is that equality of influence which our form of government was intended to secure to the electors to be restored? This generation should courageously face these grave questions, and not leave them as a heritage of woe to the next.”
— Benjamin Harrison
Tagged: racism, Freedom, Civil Rights, Law
“It has been the hope of every patriot that a sense of justice and of respect for the law would work a gradual cure of these flagrant evils. Surely no one supposes that the present can be accepted as a permanent condition. If it is said that these communities must work out this problem for themselves, we have a right to ask whether they are at work upon it. Do they suggest any solution?”
— Benjamin Harrison, First State of the Union Address(1889)
Tagged: Hope, Patriotism, Justice, Respect, Law, condition
“I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow.”
— Benjamin Harrison, Speech in Rutland, Vermont
Tagged: Demand, Labor, Wage, Equality, Economy
“But notwithstanding all this, in many parts of our country where the colored population is large the people of that race are by various devices deprived of any effective exercise of their political rights and of many of their civil rights. The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are suppressed. Every constituency in the Union is wronged.”
— Benjamin Harrison, First State of the Union Address(1889)
Tagged: country, Colored People, Race, racism, Civil Rights
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