Famous quotes containing the words african and/or slaves:
“If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.”
—White South African proverb.
“The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;—and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)