White Persons Born

Famous quotes containing the words white, persons and/or born:

“... white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)

“Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and, if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
That is not paid with moan,
For we are born in other’s pain,
And perish in our own.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)