Famous quotes containing the words evidence and/or based:
“Yet in spite of all they sang in praise of their Elizas reign, we have evidence that poets may be born and sing in our day, in the presidency of James K. Polk.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white societywhich is based on myths of progress, civilization, liberalism, education, enlightenment, refinementwill be precisely the force that opposes the expansion and the triumph of these myths. This brutal opposing force is supplied by the Negro.”
—Frantz Fanon (19251961)