Famous quotes containing the words state and/or class:
“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica’s black mass.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)