Famous quotes containing the words american, idols and/or live:
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”
—Frederick Douglass (c.18171895)
“There are four classes of idols which beset mens minds. To these for distinctions sake I have assigned namescalling the first class Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theatre.”
—Francis Bacon (15611626)
“One can not live under the same sky with the murderer of ones parents.”
—Chinese proverb.
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