Famous quotes containing the words important and/or offices:
“The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)