Famous quotes containing the words race and/or road:
“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)
“[T]he temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)