Black Codes

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or codes:

    “Swing low swing low sweet sweet chariot.
    Nothing but a plain black boy.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)