Frances Harper Quotes

1825–1911 United States

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer, one of the first African American women to be published in the United States.

United States
19th-century poets
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Also known as: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

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In coming into her political estate woman will find a mass of illiteracy to be dispelled. If knowledge is power, ignorance is also power.

Woman's Political Future" Speech (1893)

If the fifteenth century discovered America to the Old World, the nineteenth is discovering woman to herself.

Woman's Political Future" Speech (1893)

I felt the fight in me; but I don't want to have to fight all the time.

We Are All Bound Up Together" Speech (1866)

All that my yearning spirit craves
Is, Bury me not in a Land of Slaves.

I feel I am something of a novice upon this platform. Born of a race whose inheritance has been outrage and wrong, most of my life had been spent in battling against those wrongs.

We Are All Bound Up Together" Speech (1866)

So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move without woman's sharing in the movement.

Woman's Political Future" Speech (1893)

A wrong done to the weak should be an insult to the strong

Woman's Political Future" Speech (1893)

One hundred years ago and Africa was the privileged hunting-ground of Europe and America, and the flag of different nations hung a sign of death on the coasts of Congo and Guinea, and for years unbroken silence had hung around the horrors of the African slave-trade.

power without righteousness is one of the most dangerous forces in the world

Woman's Political Future" Speech (1893)

Great evils stare us in the face that need to be throttled by the combined power of an upright manhood and an enlightened womanhood; and I know that no nation can gain its full measure of enlightenment and happiness if one-half of it is free and the other half is fettered.

Woman's Political Future" Speech (1893)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frances Harper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.