Skip to content
Shawords

Quote#Nature

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of…

Quote byLydia Maria Child · 1802–1880

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833), Chapter VI.

English (original)

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

— Lydia Maria Child

2210

More from Lydia Maria Child