"The world can only be redeemed through action--movement--motion. Uncoerced, unbribed, and unbought, humanity will move toward the light."
"When a woman feels the first grip of her child's dependence upon her, she has forever lost her freedom. If the child dies, a grave shackles her soul through life. If the child lives, the welfare of that child keeps perpetually between her and the sun."
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Source: An American Bible. Book by Alice Moore Hubbard, Introduction, 1912.
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