South Central Franchise

Famous quotes containing the words south, central and/or franchise:

    “The Great South Beach of Long Island,... though wild and desolate, as it wants the bold bank,... possesses but half the grandeur of Cape Cod in my eyes, nor is the imagination contented with its southern aspect.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “My solitaria
    Are the meditations of a central mind.
    I hear the motions of the spirit and the sound
    Of what is secret becomes, for me, a voice
    That is my own voice speaking in my ear.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “To-day women constitute the only class of sane people excluded from the franchise ...”
    —Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)