#gulf

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#city #coast #got #gulf #lands

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#always #divide #father #gulf #him

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#been #constantly #fallen #graves #green

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#choose #engulfed #people #their #them

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#been #between #closed #day #great

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#gulf #gulf war #i #involved #no-fly

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#gulf #gulf war #iraqi #killing #marine

We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan. ↗

— Jon Porter

#impressed #pakistan #persian #persian gulf #scope

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#agree #before #clean #clean water #coast