Quotation by Harriet Martineau

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen ... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), British writer, social critic. "Occupation," vol. 3, Society in America (1837).
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