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
may truth-is appearance
I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.
electric-power genius earth
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
moving class circles
There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.
work trouble cures
Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.
reality blow trumpets
affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.
eye expression genius
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
death children people
If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.
light way my-own
I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.
wise doe spirituality
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
love peace lying
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
fashion flower dresses
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
law justice principles
Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
country equality men
The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.
crush diversity people
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.