Charles Lenox Remond Quotes

United States, Orator
February 1, 1810 – December, 22, 1873.

Charles Lenox Remond was an American orator, activist and abolitionist based in Massachusetts. He lectured against slavery across the Northeast, and in the British Isles on an 1840 tour with William Lloyd Garrison. During the American Civil War, he recruited blacks for the United States Colored Troops, helping staff the first two units sent from Massachusetts. From a large family of African-American entrepreneurs, he was the brother of Sarah Parker Remond, also a lecturer against slavery.

Also known as Activist

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Charles Lenox Remond
I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

Charles Lenox Remond
- Speak
- Hands
- Speech

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Charles Lenox Remond
- People
- Suffering
- Needs
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Charles Lenox Remond
- Slave
- Teeth
- Offers
Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.

Charles Lenox Remond
- Mind
- Book
- Mother