Famous quotes containing the words pride and/or system:
“... pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”
—Fannie Barrier Williams (1855–1944)