Ascending Phase

Famous quotes containing the words ascending and/or phase:

“It is the most enduring quality, and the most ascending quality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)