Lydia Maria Child citations

Lydia Marie Child était une abolitionniste américaine. Elle fut élue au comité exécutif de la société américaine anti-esclavagiste en 1839, dont elle fut éditrice du journal, le National Anti-Slavery Standard.

En 1861, elle écrit l'introduction du livre autobiographique d'Harriet A. Jacob, Incidents dans la vie d'une jeune esclave, publié à Boston. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. février 1802 – 20. octobre 1880   •   Autres noms Lydia Child
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Lydia Maria Child: Citations en anglais

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

Letters from New York https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=dcYDAAAAQAAJ&rdid=book-dcYDAAAAQAAJ&rdot=1 (1841-1843), p. 206, Letter XXVIII, 29 Sep 1842
1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
Contexte: The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word LOVE. It is the divine vitality that produces and restores life. To each and every one of us it gives the power of working miracles, if we will.

“Fifty years hence, the black laws of Connecticut will be a greater source of amusement to the antiquarian, than her famous blue laws.”

Chapter VIII http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abeslmca5t.html
1830s, An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)
Contexte: I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak of it—and never without merriment or indignation. Fifty years hence, the black laws of Connecticut will be a greater source of amusement to the antiquarian, than her famous blue laws.

“I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln.”

Letter to George W. Julian (8 April 1865), as quoted in The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery http://books.google.com/books?id=4b8m7cv3wTIC&pg=PA335#v=onepage&q&f=false, by Eric Foner, p. 336
1860s
Contexte: I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.

“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.”

1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/66/12266.html, vol. 1, letter 37

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

Message to woman suffrage supporters (c. 1875)
1870s

“The United States is…a warning rather than an example to the world.”

To the twenty-fifth-anniversary meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society (1857)
1850s

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

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

“Home—that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.”

1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/61/12261.html, vol. 1, letter 34

“It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.”

The Progress of Religious Ideas Through Successive Ages http://books.google.ca/books?id=mGmQMdHqj9AC&pg=PA451&dq=It+is+impossible+to+exaggerate+the+evil+work+theology++Lydia+Maria+Child&hl=en&sa=X&ei=At4QUYLKOrOM0QGp34DIBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=It%20is%20impossible%20to%20exaggerate%20the%20evil%20work%20theology%20%20Lydia%20Maria%20Child&f=false, 1855, p. 451, vol. 3
1850s

“I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.”

Letter to Ellis Gray Loring (1843).
1840s

“The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.”

1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/62/12262.html, vol. 1, letter 39

“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.”

The New England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day http://www.potw.org/archive/potw64.html, st. 1, from Flowers for Children (1844-1846).
1840s

“I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.”

"Concerning Women", Independent, 21 Oct 1869, as quoted in "Extracts from 'Concerning Women'" in A Lydia Maria Child Reader (1997), edited by Carolyn L. Karcher, p 403 https://books.google.com/books?id=l1lv2eDR-ocC&pg=PA403&lpg=PA403&dq=%22no+woman+could+expect+to+be+regarded+as+a+lady+after+she+had+written+a+book%22&source=bl&ots=m4wJPHeLvD&sig=tyepgWWYYRTodRbMJwCW5wZOwvs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4jdDQ4ojSAhWKSiYKHZl_AnUQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&q=%22no%20woman%20could%20expect%20to%20be%20regarded%20as%20a%20lady%20after%20she%20had%20written%20a%20book%22&f=false.

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