Famous quotes containing the word american:
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”
—Frederick Douglass (c.1817–1895)
“I’m not an American hero. I’m a person that loves children.”
—Clara Mcbride Hale (1905–1992)