Famous quotes containing the words slaves and/or brought:
“When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another mans slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.”
—Rebecca Latimer Felton (18351930)
“At the thick of the dark
the moment of the colds
deepest plunge we brought branches
cut from the green trees
to fill our need,”
—William Carlos Williams (18831963)