"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."
"One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book."
Source: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1969). “Lola Leroy: Shadows Uplifted”, p.240, Library of Alexandria
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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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