White Persons Born

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

    “Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women’s movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.”
    —Kimberly Crenshaw (b. 1959)

    “The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.”
    —14th-century French proverb, first recorded in English in A. Barclay, Gringore’s Castle of Labour (1506)