Peculiar

Famous quotes containing the word peculiar:

“Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man’s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

“Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“It was his peculiar doctrine that a man has a perfect right to interfere by force with the slaveholder, in order to rescue the slave. I agree with him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)