Famous quotes containing the words bear and/or celebration:
“It requires more virtue to bear good fortune than ill.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”
—Frederick Douglass (c.1817–1895)