Advancement Quote by 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…

— Frances Harper

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

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

— 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…

— 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 of humanity,…

— 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 behind him…

— Frances Harper

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

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 the light…

— 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…

— Frances Harper