African Americans

Famous quotes containing the words african and/or americans:

    “All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.”
    —James Baldwin (1924–1987)