Black Finishes

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or finishes:

“... the black woman can never forget—however lukewarm the party may to-day appear—that it was a Republican president who struck the manacles from her own wrists and gave the possibilities of manhood to her helpless little ones; and to her mind the Democratic Negro is a traitor and a time-server.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

“Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)