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Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

– Germaine Greer

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I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.

– Frederick Douglass

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I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark of his safety.

– Frederick Douglass

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Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall I ask that anything be done to advance the social status of the colored man, except to give him a fair chance to develop what there is good in him, give him access to the schools, and when he travels let him feel assured that his conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive.

– Ulysses S. Grant

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The island of San Domingo, situated in tropical waters, and occupied by another race, of another color, never can become a permanent possession of the United States. You may seize it by force of arms or by diplomacy, where a naval squadron does more than the minister, but the enforced jurisdiction cannot endure. Already by a higher statute is that island set apart to the colored race... I protest against this legislation as another stage in a drama of blood. I protest against it in the name down, in the name of peace imperiled, and in the name of the African race, whose first effort at independence is rudely assailed.

– Charles Sumner

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11 years ago

The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.

– Willmott

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13 years ago

Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

– Sylvia Plath

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14 years ago

In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.

– Homer

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