a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world. — 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
