Cardinal Signs

Famous quotes containing the words cardinal and/or signs:

“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)

“Mister death who signs papers
then eats
telegraphs simply: Shoot them
then eats”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)