Quotessence
Home / Authors / Frances Harper
Frances Harper

Frances Harper Quotes

Poet

Filter quotes by topic

AllIfsMenSlaveryBearsChildrenJusticeMayNeedsShadowSoul

Famous Frances Harper Quotes

“Amid ancient lore the Word of God stands unique and pre-eminent. Wonderful in its construction, admirable in its adaptation, it contains truths that a child may comprehend, and mysteries into which angels desire to look.”

LooksMayChildrenDesireWonderfulMysteryUniqueBibleAngelAncientWord Of GodConstructionAdaptationAdmirable
Book:A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
Create image

“A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.”

HumansDoeGovernmentLawLife IsJusticeCitizensProtectWeaknessWeakAdministrationHuman LifeInsecureViciousOutrageDeficiency
Author:Frances Harper
Create image

“But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of a nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God's children.”

ChildrenTwoHumanityStrongNationsJusticeSimplePowerfulCivilizationDeeperTwo ThingsSentiments
Book:A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
Create image

“I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.”

IfsHeartChildrenHas BeensMadePurposeReadingBornBehindsChristianityCrimeCivilizationShadowInstitutionsSlaveryBillsPrivilegeEnvySecureMade ItPassagesInheritanceDominionLegislators
Author:Frances Harper
Create image

“It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.”

IfsMenYearsHas BeensSaidTwoEyeLastsFightingPoorPovertyGraceBloodTearsRacismHundredYears AgoSlaverySouthIllIgnorantConquerFiftyEarningBlindnessSighMachineryParadesCottonReproachWrongedWarpAmerican Slavery
Author:Frances Harper
Create image