Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Thomas Wentworth Higginsonwas an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. He was a member of the Secret Six who supported John Brown. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized black regiment, from 1862–1864. Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth22 December 1823
CountryUnited States of America
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest. Test each sect by its best or its worst as you will, by its high-water mark of virtue or its low-water mark of vice. But falsehood begins when you measure the ebb of any other religion against the flood-tide of your own. There is a noble and a base side to every history.