Quote#Education
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been…
Quote byFrances Ellen Watkins Harper · 1825–1911
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Woman's Political Future" Speech (1893).
English (original)
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him ages of education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.
— Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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