Famous quotes containing the words bank and/or system:
“... an adamantine island chained to the shifting bank of the Channel.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“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)