System Reply

Famous quotes containing the words system and/or reply:

    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)

    Ask of her, the mighty mother:
    Her reply puts this other
    Question: What is Spring?—
    Growth in everything.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)