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Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes

1823–1911 United States

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823 – May 9, 1911) was 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.

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To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg.

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