Petty Officer Academy

Famous quotes containing the words petty, officer and/or academy:

    The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.
    Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

    I who have cursed
    The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
    Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?
    Betray them both, or give back what they give?
    How can I face such slaughter and be cool?
    How can I turn from Africa and live?
    Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

    The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
    bell hooks (b. c. 1955)