Class Iron Crosses

Famous quotes containing the words class, iron and/or crosses:

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
—Frederick Douglass (c.1817–1895)

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)