Quote#Money & Wealth
I rejoice to be fully identified with the despised people of color.…
Quote byAbby Kelley Foster · 1811–1887
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Let Us Act" (1840).
English (original)
I rejoice to be fully identified with the despised people of color. If they are despised, wo ought we their advocates to be. It is a poor policy, for it is a wicked policy which would make two bands of us. We hear about retaining our influence by not being identified with them. But what was the example of our Saviour! The publicans and sinners were his associates — the poor and the despised.
— Abby Kelley Foster
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