Kelly Miller Quotes
Slavery made the Negro as dependent upon the intelligence and foresight of his master as a soldier upon the will of his commander
Miller was the first Black American admitted to a Graduate Program—Johns Hopkins—in Mathematics
Kelly Miller, 1863-1939, Mathematician, Attorney, Sociologist, Columnist, and Civil Rights Advocate, Address delivered before the Alumni association of the Hampton Institute, June 14, 1899
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This statement was made long after slavery had been abolished and Jim Crow was on the rise in the South.
Referring to the Arawak natives he found when he landed in the "new world—San Salvador:"
Referring to Black Congressman Julian Bond: Louis Eugene Walcott
Toward the end of the 19th century Cambodia became a protectorate of France. One of the first things that the French did was abolish slavery. There was a general rebellion as few in Khmer society wanted change of any kind.
As a result of the programs and philosophy he expounded, Leontiev joyously predicted:
The Ndebele were a warrior caste that had captured the land of the Shona and enslaved them. When the whites came there was antipathy to the Ndebele and great fear that they would have to farm and do manual labor, things which they had always required their slaves to do. At the same time the king was a vicious despot who killed many of his subjects at his whim and who was resented even by the Ndebele. The king took poison rather than be captured by the whites. Ironically, the king anticipated the great dissatisfaction of the Ndebele when they could no longer own slaves and had to do their own manual labor.
Kelly Miller was an American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist, author, and an important figure in the intellectual life of black America for close to half a century. He was known as "the Bard of the Potomac".
