Lydia Maria Child Quotes

1802–1880 United States

Lydia Maria Child (11 February, 1802 – 7 July, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of U.S. expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist.

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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

The Freedmen's Book‎ (1869)

Fifty years hence, the black laws of Connecticut will be a greater source of amusement to the antiquarian, than her famous blue laws.

An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Letters from New York (1843)

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)

It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

Message to woman suffrage supporters (1875)

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.

Letters from New York (1843)

I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.

Home—that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.

Letters from New York (1843)

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.

Philothea (1836)

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

The United States is...a warning rather than an example to the world.

To the twenty-fifth-anniversary meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (1857)

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Letter to the Advocates of Woman’s Suffrage (1870)

They [the 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!

An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

Letter to Sarah Shaw (1856)

Pillars are fallen at thy feet,
Fanes quiver in the air,
A prostrate city is thy seat,
And thou alone art there.

Now twilight lets her curtain down
And pins it with a star.

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.

A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. letters from ny wqadd

Letters from New York (1843)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lydia Maria Child (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.