Jump Race

Famous quotes containing the words jump and/or race:

    Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
    With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)