Lydia Maria Child: Likeness

Lydia Maria Child was American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“They [the slaves] 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

Chapter VI http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abeslmca3t.html <br class="br">1830s, An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)

“Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. Divine Providence has a mission for her children to fulfill; though a mission unrecognized by political economists. There is ever a moral balance preserved in the universe, like the vibrations of the pendulum. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.”

Lydia Maria Child

1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/57/12260.html, vol. 1, letter 33

“All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.”

Lydia Maria Child

1860s <br class="br">Source: Letter to John Fraser http://www.bartleby.com/66/71/12271.html (1868)

“There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface. Everything seems to me to come from the Infinite, to be filled with the Infinite, to be tending toward the Infinite. Do I see crowds of men hastening to extinguish a fire? I see not merely uncouth garbs, and fantastic, flickering lights, of lurid hue, like a trampling troop of gnomes—but straightway my mind is filled with thoughts about mutual helpfulness, human sympathy, the common bond of brotherhood, and the mysteriously deep foundations on which society rests; or rather, on which it now reels and totters.”

Lydia Maria Child

1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/65/12265.html, vol. 1, letter 1

“Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.”

Lydia Maria Child

Philothea http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9982 (1836), p. 51 (in EPUB version) <br class="br">1830s