Famous quotes containing the words fox and/or island:
“Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.”
—Charles James Fox (1749–1806)
“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)