Export Slaves

Famous quotes containing the words export and/or slaves:

“The rumor of a great city goes out beyond its borders, to all the latitudes of the known earth. The city becomes an emblem in remote minds; apart from the tangible export of goods and men, it exerts its cultural instrumentality in a thousand phases.”
—In New York City, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“No, I’m Spartacus. You come to free the slaves or something?”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)