Color Dark Violet

Famous quotes containing the words color, dark and/or violet:

    “African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and excite in his bosom a lively, deep, decided and heart-felt interest.”
    —Maria Stewart (1803–1879)

    “While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “A violet by a mossy stone
    Half hidden from the eye!
    Fair as a star, when only one
    Is shining in the sky.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)