Failed States Index

Famous quotes containing the words failed, states and/or index:

“We have yet to deal successfully with American transraciality in real terms, as we have failed to redefine race in light of the modern, twenty-first century progress of human kind.”
—Virginia Hamilton (b. 1936)

“The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.”
—William McKinley (1843–1901)

“Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)