I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne? — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures. — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity,… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
