Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are not... equal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is wretchedness deprived that benefit To end itself by death? 'Twas yet some comfort... When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage And frustrate his proud will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Asked, upon the death of her fast friend and sister suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816-1902), which period of their associat...ion she had enjoyed the most:] The days when the struggle was the hardest and the fight the thickest; when the whole world was against us and we had to stand the closer to each other; when I would go to her home and help with the children and the housekeeping through the day and then we would sit up far into the night preparing our ammunition and getting ready to move on the enemy. The years since the rewards began to come have brought no enjoyment like that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Logic, reason, disease, and the menace of death, these things meant nothing at all to us. We were committed to other values by whi...ch the poet has always lived in defiance of all that society demanded of him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would ...drive me mad on my death-bed could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to her soil. I would not even feed her worms if I could help it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »