To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.
Source: Letter to Willima Garrison, 5 Mar 1842.
-- Robert Purvis, ( 1810-1898), US activist, Underground Railroad organizer; He unsuccessfully protested the disenfranchisement of blacks in Philadelphia, 1830s; cofounded the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833.