In 1619, when there are reports about the first blacks brought to British North America, they are referred to as N-I-G-G-U-H-S. Well,… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin. — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
I'm really excited to see my vision for the 'British Vogue' team come to fruition. — Edward Enninful Copy Share Image
Britain, today, educates 4.8 million primary school children in Britain. And we educate five million primary school children around the developing world,… — Andrew Mitchell Copy Share Image
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their… — Ben Lovett Copy Share Image
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The way they taught history in schools was not appealing. They stressed wars and dates. They left the people out. I was… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount,… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage. — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you're perceived as a comic writer, there's a… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was… — Bono Copy Share Image
One of the things I do know about investment from around the world and job creators: they won't come to British Columbia… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was… — George Mason Copy Share Image
'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and… — Rose George Copy Share Image
My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Sherlock' is brilliant television. It has completely reinvented British drama, and upped the stakes for home-grown shows. — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their… — Mahmud Tarzi Copy Share Image
How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Can I get a mochaccino?': a statement that, for many, is worse than any number of nails down a blackboard. Not on… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
The British have chosen liberty with Brexit and can congratulate themselves every day. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When the British ruled Malaysia, they burnt millions of acres of Malaysian forests so that they could plant rubber. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image