Famous quotes containing the words pride and/or system:
“What will we come to
With all this pride of ancestry, we Yankees?
I think we’re all mad.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)