American Blacks

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or blacks:

“The American people have done much for the locomotive, and the locomotive has done much for them.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

“America is a great country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it’s tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn’t solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, but it’s still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem nothing to you to be able to say what you like, even against the government, the Establishment?”
—Golda Meir (1898–1978)