Africa/politics

Famous quotes containing the words africa and/or politics:

“America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)