Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words. Vol. 1, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.
In reference to the Fugitive Slave Law:
Johnson was the greatest boxer of his era and perhaps of all time. The not only beat the what champions in an era of Jim Crowe but he lived an ostentation life as a celebrity -- almost unheard of for a Black man at tht time. He never assumed any subervience which was expected of all Negroes at the time, He lived openly with a white woman and was jailed for a while. What is particualrly interesting about this quotation is that with all his accomplishments as the best boxer in the world, a man wh was very wealthy, that the thing he was most proud of was that he had maintained his manhood and did not cower as almost all blacks were forst to do. What he achieved ia what most Black men have striven for and still do.
Charles Caleb Colton was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.
