Famous quotes containing the words african and/or americans:
“A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,—a denizen of the woods. “The pale white man!” I do not wonder that the African pitied him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall!”
—John Dickinson (1732–1808)