Humboldt Street

Famous quotes containing the words humboldt and/or street:

    “Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.”
    —Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)

    “Women are the people who are going to relieve us from all this oppression and depression. The rent boycott that is happening in Soweto now is alive because of the women. It is the women who are on the street committees educating the people to stand up and protect each other.”
    —Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (b. 1919)