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Elizabeth Oakes Smith
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“... faith is the subtle chain / Which binds us to the infinite; the voice / Of a deep life within, that will remain / Until we crowd it thence.”
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“My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?”
Elizabeth Oakes Smith, U.S. poet, writer, editor, women’s rights activist
(1806 - 1893)
Full name: Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith.