White Persons Born

Famous quotes containing the words white, persons and/or born:

“When the white man governs himself that is self-government; but when he governs himself, and also governs another man, that is more than self-government—that is despotism.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.”
—Anthony Powell (b. 1905)

“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)