Andrew Johnson: Quotes about colors

Andrew Johnson was American politician, 17th president of the United States (in office from 1865 to 1869). Explore interesting quotes on color.
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“The attempt to place the white population under the domination of persons of color in the South has impaired, if not destroyed, the kindly relations that had previously existed between them: and mutual distrust has engendered a feeling of animosity which leading in some instances to collision and bloodshed, has prevented that cooperation between the two races so essential to the success of industrial enterprise in the Southern States.”

Andrew Johnson

Quote, Fourth State of the Union Address (1868)

“If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union.”

Andrew Johnson

Letter to William L. Sharkey, governor of Mississippi (June 1865).
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“This is your country as well as anybody else's country. This country is founded upon the principle of equality. He that is meritorious and virtuous, intellectual and well informed, must stand highest, without regard to color.”

Andrew Johnson

To Union soldiers (1865), as quoted in Andrew Johnson: A Profile http://web.archive.org/web/20110316175449/http://home.nas.com/lopresti/ps17.htm (1969), &quot;Johnson and the Negro&quot;, by Lawanda Cox and John H. Cox; edited by Eric L. McKitrick, Hill &amp; Wang, New York pp. 141. <br class="br">Quote

“Colored men of Tennessee, humble and unworthy as I am, if no better shall be found I will indeed be your Moses and lead you through the Red Sea of war and bondage to a fairer future of liberty and peace. I speak now as one who feels the world his country and all who love equal rights his friends.”

Andrew Johnson

As quoted in &quot;The Good Fight&quot; https://archive.org/details/orationsandaddr03curtgoog (1865), by George William Curtis. <br class="br">Quote