British army Quote by Margot Asquith

“It was the lot of the Fifity-fourth to bear the brunt of the struggle against the bitter injustice of inferior pay to which black…

— Luis Fenollosa Emilio

I've been in that 'can't fail' position a lot. The first African American to be the vice chief of the Army; the first African…

— Lloyd Austin

Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He…

— Ray Stevenson

My father served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers for many years.

— Lesley Sharp

As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the…

— J. D. Vance

“As the Confederates were preparing, a Union army called the Army of Northeastern Virginia (not to be confused with Lee’s legendary Army of Northern…

— Charles River Editors

Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black...

— Danielle O'Hara

A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody.

— Aleksandr Vasilevsky

My grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman. He flew with the 100th Fighter Squadron.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.

— Anthony Hemingway

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“in ethnic crossings, the negro strikingly displays his prepotency, for black blood, once entering a human stock, seems never really bred out again. Negro”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard