Greenleaf/people

Famous quotes containing the words greenleaf and/or people:

    These Flemish pictures of old days;
    Sit with me by the homestead hearth,
    And stretch the hands of memory forth
    To warm them at the wood-fire’s blaze!
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
    James Baldwin (1924–1987)