Famous quotes containing the words states, house and/or committee:
“... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled and died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.”
—Amanda Berry Smith (18371915)
“What is the use of a house if you have nt got a tolerable planet to put it on?if you cannot tolerate the planet it is on?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The cemetery isnt really a place to make a statement.”
—Mary Elizabeth Baker, U.S. cemetery committee head. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1988)
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