Quotes About Hiram Rhodes Revels

I was imprisoned in Missouri in 1854 for preaching the gospel to Negroes, though I was never subjected to violence.

I hold that establishing mixed schools will not harm the white race. I am their friend. I said in Mississippi, and I say here, and I say everywhere, that I would abandon the Republican party if it went into any measures of legislation really damaging to any portion of the white race, but it is not in the Republican party to do that.