Bound Feet

Famous quotes containing the words bound and/or feet:

    ... so far from thinking that a slaveholder is bound by the immoral and unconstitutional laws of the Southern States, we hold that he is solemnly bound as a man, as an American, to break them, and that immediately and openly ...
    Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

    A word perhaps loud spoken you may get,
    Or hear our feet when heavily they tread;
    But he who speaks, or him who’s spoken to,
    Must both remain as strangers still to you.
    Jones Very (1831–1880)