Top 21 Frances Harper Quotes
#1. Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?
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#2. The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.
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#3. Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.
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#4. I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.
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#6. 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 is not simplymore voters, but better voters.
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#7. True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.
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#8. I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.
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#9. If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day ...
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#10. I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it ... but the women work most for it.
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#11. My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.
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#12. 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.
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#13. The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.
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#14. A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.
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#15. Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
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#16. We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.
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#18. There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.
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#19. Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look.
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#20. As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.
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#21. One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.
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