Universal Negro Improvement

Famous quotes containing the words universal, negro and/or improvement:

    “The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “We can rejoice that the time has arrived when millions of Negro Americans can step out of the shadows, and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.”
    —Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)

    “We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)