Million Lives

Famous quotes containing the words million and/or lives:

“When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in a sickly air. People can be slave-ships in shoes.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)