Labor Day Hurricane

Famous quotes containing the words labor, day and/or hurricane:

“For Afro-Americans, it could be argued that every year they’ve spent in this country since they arrived in chains to perform forced labor has been 1984.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

“On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, third edition (1987)

“Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)