Quotes of Lydia Maria Child - somelinesforyou

“ Usefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ They 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! ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ 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. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

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

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

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

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

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

- Lydia Maria Child

“ It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

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

- Lydia Maria Child

“ They 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! ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ They 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! ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ They 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! ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ They 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! ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ 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. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ 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. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ 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. ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end. ”

- Lydia Maria Child
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