Famous quotes containing the words american, race and/or walking:
“The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.”
—John Steinbeck (19021968)
“The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.”
—Mary Mcleod Bethune (18751955)
“I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.”
—John Major (b. 1943)