Famous quotes containing the words american and/or liberty:
“We have yet to deal successfully with American transraciality in real terms, as we have failed to redefine race in light of the modern, twenty-first century progress of human kind.”
—Virginia Hamilton (b. 1936)
“The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)