Famous quotes containing the words racial and/or tension:
“... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)
“The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)