Black Codes

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or codes:

“Soon,
Light from a small intense lopsided moon
Shows them, black as their shadows, sleeping so.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)