Morris

Famous quotes containing the word morris:

    Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
    —William Morris Hughes (1864–1952)

    The white dominant culture seemed to think that once the Indians were off the reservations, they’d eventually become like everybody else. But they aren’t like everybody else. When the Indianness is drummed out of them, they are turned into hopeless drunks on skid row.
    —Elizabeth Morris (b. c. 1933)

    We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
    —Desmond Morris (b. 1928)