Famous quotes containing the words negro and/or leagues:
“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)
“Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away.”
—Chinese proverb.