Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Antoinette Louisa Brown, later Antoinette Brown Blackwell, was the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States. She was a well-versed public speaker on the paramount issues of her time, and distinguished herself from her contemporaries with her use of religious faith in her efforts to expand women's rights...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth20 May 1825
CountryUnited States of America
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The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.
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Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
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One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think …
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There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.
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The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
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If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.
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Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?
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Every nursing mother, in the midst of her little dependent brood, has far more right to whine, sulk or scold, as temperament dictates, because beefsteak and coffee are not prepared for her and exactly to her taste, than any man ever had or ever can have during the present stage of human evolution.
light principles belief
Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.
nature acceptance men
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
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God created the first pair equal in rights, possessions, and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational creation; but none over each other.
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No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
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Mr. Darwin ... has failed to hold definitely before his mind the principle that the difference of sex, whatever it may consist in, must itself be subject to natural selection and to evolution.
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if human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.