Famous quotes containing the words white, persons and/or born:
“I dont have any doubts that there will be a place for progressive white people in this country in the future. I think the paranoia common among white people is very unfounded. I have always organized my life so that I could focus on political work. Thats all I want to do, and thats all that makes me happy.”
—Hettie V., South African white anti-apartheid activist and feminist. As quoted in Lives of Courage, ch. 21, by Diana E. H. Russell (1989)
“Errors look so very ugly in persons of small meansone feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I remember
a dream two nights ago: the voice,
the artist must
create himself or be born again.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)