Famous quotes containing the words age and/or system:
“Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”
—Fannie Barrier Williams (1855–1944)