Catharine Beecher

All must see that the surest, as well as the most peaceful method of bringing to an end all social evils, all wrong, and all injustice, is to train the young children of our nation “to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God.”

One single vulgar, or deceitful, or licentious domestic may, in a single month, mar the careful an anxious training of years.

It is the high character of my countrywomen, and the great power and influence they thus command, which has been my chief encouragement in laboring in this cause.

The educating of children, that is the true and noble profession of a woman — that is what is worthy the noblest peers and affections of the noblest minds.

There is almost nothing which a man cannot believe, if only he wishes to believe it

Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together; and then the articles thus made are sold for prices that give monstrous profits to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labors of our …

While every intelligent man in the Union is reading and saying every day of his life that unless our children are trained to intelligence and virtue, the nation is ruined; yet there is nothing else for which so little interest is felt, or …

Two millions of American children are left without any teachers at all, while, of those who go to school, a large portion of the youngest and tenders are turned over to coast, hard, unfeeling men, too lazy or too stupid to follow the …

Permit me first to present some facts in regard to the situation of an immense number of young children in this land, for whom your sympathies at this time are sought. Few are aware of the deplorable destitution of our country in regard to …