Colored Persons

Famous quotes containing the words colored and/or persons:

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.”
—Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)