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IN QUOTES Dr. Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon |
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“I am proud of the incident that your paper so glibly described as a ‘disturbance created” by me at the so-called political meeting Sandys Parish on the 26th instant. I am and will always be proud at asking prospective candidates questions on subjects that concern the very existence of the coloured people of Bermuda.” - Letter to the editor, The Royal Gazette — May 27, 1943 “I had been instrumental in getting a bid for Alma Hunt to the trials at Trinidad when the West Indies team to tour England in 1933 was about to be selected." - Letter to the editor, the Mid-Ocean News, October, 20, 1953“When I get elected to the House of Assembly I will fight hard to get coloured girls admitted to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for training. I shall also fight for social security, old-age pensions, sick benefits or free hospitalisation and Rhodes Scholarships for our coloured young men.” - March 14, 1953 “I want critics to know that whether they consider I have suddenly turned white does not interest me in the least…I have done my duty… as much as I was expected to do under existing conditions.” - 1954 Response to blacks’ criticism of report of Inter-racial Committee. |
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