Forbidding Child Sacrifice

Famous quotes containing the words child and/or sacrifice:

“That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.”
—Lydia M. Child (1802–1880)

“hair and hide
a sacrifice of blood and flowers
on his altar
if any worshipper
kneel or not.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)