"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul."
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Frances Harper
Author, Activist
Frances Harper was a 19th-century African American author and activist known for her powerful writings on racial and gender equality.
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"Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives."
"The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much."
"I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it."
"If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day."
"So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege."