Feet Bound

Famous quotes containing the words feet and/or bound:

    On their own feet they came, or on shipboard,
    Camelback, horseback, ass-back, mule-back,
    Old civilizations put to the sword.
    Then they and their wisdom went to rack:
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    ... 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)