21 Quotes by Frances Harper

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.

As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

No man can feel the iron which enters another man’s soul.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.