Friendly Islands

Famous quotes containing the words friendly and/or islands:

    Jesus our brother, strong and good,
    Was humbly born in a stable rude,
    And the friendly beasts around Him stood,
    Jesus our brother, strong and good.
    “I”, said the donkey, shaggy and brown
    —Unknown. The Friendly Beasts (l. 1–5)

    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)