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Olympia Brown

  • He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

    • Olympia Brown,
    • sermon in Mukwonago, Wisconsin ()
  • The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

    • Olympia Brown,
    • 1895, Olympia Brown, An Autobiography ()

Olympia Brown, U.S. minister, suffragist

(1835 - 1926)