Famous quotes containing the words white and/or americans:
“On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)