Colored Children

Famous quotes containing the words colored and/or children:

    “I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn’t occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that’s all!”
    —Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)

    “Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)