The time has gone by for colored people to talk of patriotism: . . . He used to be proud that his grandfather, on his mother's side, fought for liberty in the Revolutionary War. But that time had passed by.
Source: Anti-Slavery Discourse to the Massachusetts Antislavery Society; in The Liberator, 10 Jul 1857.
-- Charles Lenox Remond, (Feb 1 1810-1873), US abolitionist; He was a leading abolitionist and a prominent member of the Anti-Slavery Society.