Famous quotes containing the words downhill and/or race:
“To get through their days, nervous natures such as mine have various speeds as do automobiles. There are uphill and difficult day which take an eternity to climb, and downhill days which can be quickly descended.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“...I am an abolitionist for the sake of my own raceContact with the African degenerates our white raceI find the association with them injurious to my childkeenly as I watch to prevent it & his faithful nurse to help me ... She is a good woman & so are many of themStill the race is a degraded one ...”
—Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818?)
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