Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Quotes

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Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Collected Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper)
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(Frances Ellen Watkins Harper) "In closing, Harper challenged the white women in the audience to stand by their black sisters, to look beyond their own white privilege. β€œYou white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs,” she reminded them. β€œTalk of giving women the ballot-box? … While there exists this brutal element in society which tramples upon the feeble and treads down the weak, I tell you that if there is any class of people who need to be lifted out of their airy nothings and selfishness, it is the white women of America.
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Kate Clifford Larson (Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero)
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She married Mr. Gundover's Dick.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Iola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted)
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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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It was a strange sight to see these black men rallying around the Stars and Stripes, when white men were trampling them under foot and riddling them with bullets.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted)
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In the new era of your life, Bring love for hate, peace for strife
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Poems)
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All that may be true, but I cannot recognize that the negro man is the only one who has pressing claims at this hour. To-day our government needs woman's conscience as well as man's judgment. And while I would not throw a straw in the way of the colored man, even though I know that he would vote against me as soon as he gets his vote, yet I do think that woman should have some power to defend herself from oppression, and equal laws as if she were a man.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Minnie's Sacrifice)
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simple robes Rich tints of beauty rare. Soon a host of lovely flowers From vales and woodland burst; But in all that fair procession The crocuses were first. First to weave for Earth a chaplet To crown her dear old head; And to beautify the pathway Where winter still did tread. And their loved and white haired mother Smiled sweetly 'neath the touch, When she knew her faithful children Were loving her
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Poems of Frances E. W. Harper)
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To brighten history's page. Where labor faints and bows her head, And want consorts with crime; Or men grown faithless sadly say That evil is the time. There is the field, the vantage ground For
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Poems of Frances E. W. Harper)
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Slavery was a deadly cancer eating into the life of the nation; but, somehow, it had cast such a glamour over us that we have acted somewhat as if our national safety were better preserved by sparing the cancer than by cutting it out.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted (AmazonClassics Edition))
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,
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Kyla Schuller (The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism)
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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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France Ellen Watkins Harper
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Make me a grave where'er you will, In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill; Make it among earth’s humblest graves, But not in a land where men are slaves. […] I ask no monument, proud and high, To arrest the gaze of the passers-by; All that my yearning spirit craves, Is bury me not in a land of slaves.
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Bury Me in a Free Land)