"So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move without womans sharing in the movement."
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States.
"More than the changing of institutions we need the development of a national conscience, and the upbuilding of national character. Men may boast of the aristocracy of blood, may glory in the aristocracy of talent, and be proud of the aristocracy of wealth, but there is one aristocracy which must ever outrank them all, and that is the aristocracy of character"
"In coming into her political estate woman will find a mass of illiteracy to be dispelled. If knowledge is power, ignorance is also power."
"A wrong done to the weak should be an insult to the strong"
"power without righteousness is one of the most dangerous forces in the world"
"I feel I am something of a novice upon this platform. Born of a race whose inheritance has been outrage and wrong, most of my life had been spent in battling against those wrongs."
"If the fifteenth century discovered America to the Old World, the nineteenth is discovering woman to herself."