North Fair Oaks

Famous quotes containing the words north, fair and/or oaks:

    “The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “Iron are our lives
    Molten right through our youth.
    A burnt space through ripe fields
    A fair mouth’s broken tooth.”
    —Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)

    “He that depends
    Upon your favors swims with fins of lead,
    And hews down oaks with rushes.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)