Famous quotes containing the words southern, line and/or islands:
“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;”
—William Blake (17571827)
“Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.”
—Lewis Mumford (18951990)
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-linethe relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)