Fourth Generation Prelude

Famous quotes containing the words fourth, generation and/or prelude:

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.”
—Frederick Douglass (c.1817–1895)

“Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

““We’re all friends here” is a prelude to fraud. “I am sincere” is a prelude to lying.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)