Lydia M. Child
Lydia M. Child
Lydia Maria Francis Child, was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
CountryUnited States of America
tyrants justice wave
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!
worst-enemy effort atheism
Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient to banish it from the earth, as one of the worst enemies of mankind.
prayer heart people
Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.
reform defeat reformers
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
destiny battle doe
Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.
horse winter rivers
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.