Famous quotes containing the words black, student and/or union:
“Lo, thus, as prostrate, In the dust I write
My hearts deep languor and my souls sad tears.
Yet why evoke the spectres of black night
To blot the sunshine of exultant years?”
—James Thomson (18341882)
“Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fools allowance.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched.Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slaveryin fact, its only enemy.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)