Yellow Man

Famous quotes containing the words yellow and/or man:

    “Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we—the white race—have become the yellow man’s burden. Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    “What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand, and from it philosophy starts in its study of the universe of mind as well as the universe of nature.”
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)