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Maria Chapman
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“Custom is never, by her nature, the handmaid of freedom ...”
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“... all external opposition, in whatever form it may appear, is harmless, compared to internal sedition.”
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“We may draw good out of evil: we must not do evil, that good may come.”
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“In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.”
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“Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, / The women have leaped from 'their spheres,' / And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, / And are setting the world by the ears!”
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“They've taken a notion to speak for themselves, / And are wielding the tongue and the pen; / They've mounted the rostrum; the termagent elves, / And — oh horrid! — are talking to men! / With faces unblanched in our presence they come / To harangue us, they say, in behalf of the dumb.”
Maria Chapman, U.S. abolitionist, women's rights worker, philanthropist
(1806 - 1885)
Full name: Maria Weston Chapman.