James T. Rapier Quotes

• There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

  James T. Rapier

  Bullying, Heart, Safety

  21 Copy quote

• I am held to answer for the crime of color when I was not consulted in the matter. Had I been consulted in the matter and my future fully described, I think I should have objected to being born in this gospel land.

  James T. Rapier

  Thinking, Color, Should Have

  21 Copy quote