Famous quotes containing the words islands and/or history:
“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)
“The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)