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Lydia M. Child Biography

Lydia Maria Francis Child (born Lydia Maria Francis) (February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880), was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism.

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There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

Circle, Circles, Class, Moving, Thinkers, World

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.

Apt, Childhood, Men, Painful, Thetransient, Youth

the excess of all good things is mischievous.

Excess, Good Things, Mischievous, Things

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

Ballot, Come, Diversity, Justice, Rap, Women

our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. . . . Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually.

Class, Excluded, Government, Ideas, Republican

The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.

Country, Equality, Life, Measured, Men

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

Appearance, Contrary, May, Particle, Truth Is, Working

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Half, Happy, Make, People, Wickedness

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

Angel, Bear, Clouds, Face, Men, Needs

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Age, Birthday, Childhood, Love, Lovely

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

Carry, Horse, Rivers, Winter, Wood

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Accepts, Angel, Cloud, Clouds, Reality, Soul

In the first place, an unjust law exists in this Commonwealth, by which marriages between persons of different color is pronounced illegal. I am perfectly aware of the gross ridicule to which I may subject myself by alluding to this particular; but I have lived too long, and observed too much, to be disturbed by the world's mockery.

Color, Disturbed, Gross, Law, Long

[U]sefulness is happiness, and. . . all other things are but incidental.

Happiness, Helping, Incidental, Making A Difference, Things

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

Amusement, Flitting, Hours, Passed, Theatre, Things

The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.

Indwelling, Joy, Law, Laws, Love, Self

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

Justice, Law, Principles, Violates

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Earth, Electric Power, Genius, Hath, Power

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Building, Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Successful, Venture

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

Cure, Cures, Trouble, Troubles, Unfailing, Work

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