Category: social reformer
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass
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Love is the river of life in the world.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Henry Ward Beecher
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick Douglass
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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher