How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expe...ctations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... we should be miserable but for the consciousness that we have done all in our power to help forward every measure for the free...dom and equality of the races and the sexes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, and ... the tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it ou...t. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those ar...ound them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,... or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For me being a poet is a job rather than an activity. I feel I have a function in society, neither more nor less meaningful than a...ny other simple job. I feel it is part of my work to make poetry more accessible to people who have had their rights withdrawn from them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social inte...rest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at lea...st a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »