The Original Black Elite Quotes

“Recent terrorist incidents as well as systemic racial bias in law enforcement have brought this debate to the fore and highlighted inequities such as facial, ethnic, and religious profiling.”
― Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

“The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W. E. B. DUBOIS”
― Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

“You have reached the allotted span of human life in the ordinary course of events.”
― Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

“Who can explain,” Murray queried, “why a mulatto is not a white man with Negro blood in him, rather than a Negro with white blood in him?”
― Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

“Anna Murray, according to Kindergarten Magazine, gave one of the “most stirring addresses” of the conference, stressing the importance of kindergartens. “The seed time must be taken for character sowing,” she insisted, “not the harvest time.”
― Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

“No matter how light colored they may be or how intelligent, cultured, or wealthy, they have determined that all shall be subject to the same proscriptions and discriminations.”6”
― Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

“graduated from Oberlin College in 1862, the first black woman in the country to earn a BA degree, and she and her several siblings were now working in the District’s colored school system.”
― Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

“The great attainments and great achievements of men have been not only won through sturdy struggle, but wrung of what men call an adverse fate, which is the best educator a man can have. A young man is not to seek a place made, but to make a place. Openings in life are things compelled, not things granted.” By”
― Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

“Now and always, we expect to insist upon it that we are Americans, that America is our native land; that this is our home; that we are American citizens . . . and that it is the duty of the American people so to recognize us. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS A”
― Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era