Samuel Ringgold

Samuel Ringgold may refer to:

  • Samuel Ringgold (congressman) (1770–1829), U.S. Congressman from Maryland
  • Samuel Ringgold (US Army officer) (1796–1846), his son, officer in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War
  • Samuel Ringgold Ward (1817–c. 1866), son of slaves and author of Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro

Famous quotes containing the words samuel and/or ringgold:

    “He had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he; he stood head and shoulders above everyone else.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 9:2.

    “No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.”
    —Faith Ringgold (b. 1934)