Famous quotes containing the words american, armored and/or column:
“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 (19241987)
“The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (19111979)
“Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.”
—Henry Timrod (18281867)