Threatened

Famous quotes containing the word threatened:

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

“My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

“... two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 16 (1962)