Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry
ElizabethFry, née Gurney, was an English prison reformer, social reformer and, as a Quaker, a Christian philanthropist. She has sometimes been referred to as the "angel of prisons"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth21 May 1780
afraid car domestic everybody safe safety women
Take Back the Night' isn't just about domestic violence, 'Take Back the Night' is also about being safe going back to your car safety, child's safety, women' safety, men's safety - it's just about not being afraid to be out in the evening. It's for everybody not just women and children, it's for everybody.
cost free great hoping
Everyone is invited, it doesn't cost anything, it's free to everyone we're really hoping to have some really great time.
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It's all to make people aware of violence and safety in the evenings, and the different things that go on in their community how to avoid feeling.
honor sides
It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted
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I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not
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I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
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Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.
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I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.