Occupy Wall Street

Famous quotes containing the words wall street, occupy, wall and/or street:

    “I think we will live through his term, Archie, and I’ll tell you something, old man, if they don’t stop hammering me, first Bryan for not enforcing the Anti-Trust Law and Wall Street for enforcing it, they may succeed in electing me to another term whether I want it or not.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf.... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then ... be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    “Last night you wrote on the wall: Revolution is poetry.
    Today you needn’t write; the wall has tumbled down.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “And in these dark cells,
    packed street after street,
    souls live, hideous yet
    O disfigured, defaced,
    with no trace of the beauty
    men once held so light.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)