I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.
A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy. - Frances Harper
A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.
- Frances Harper
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warm… - Frances Harper
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warm…
So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing… - Frances Harper
So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing…
My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine. - Frances Harper
My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.
No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul. - Frances Harper
No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.
The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much. - Frances Harper
The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.
If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day. - Frances Harper
If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.
We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving… - Frances Harper
We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving…
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. - Frances Harper
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
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