It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age… sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy,… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
