Frances Harper

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of…

— Frances Harper

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong…

— Frances Harper

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . .…

— Frances Harper

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear…

— Frances Harper

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

— Frances Harper

But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense…

— Frances Harper

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

— Frances Harper

I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has…

— Frances Harper

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we…

— Frances Harper

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

— Frances Harper

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole…

— Frances Harper

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False…

— Frances Harper

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human…

— Frances Harper

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.

— Frances Harper

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

— Frances Harper

Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.

— Frances Harper

Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths…

— Frances Harper

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout…

— Frances Harper

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

— Frances Harper

As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has…

— Frances Harper

It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who…

— Frances Harper

There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance,…

— Frances Harper

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

— Frances Harper

So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can…

— Frances Harper

a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance,…

— Frances Harper