Frances Harper Quotes

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

Frances Harper
Oh! when thy heart and home were glad,
I freely shared thy joyous lot;
And now that heart is lone and sad,
Cease to entreat — I'll leave thee not.

Frances Harper
Intense love is often akin to intense suffering...

Frances Harper
Have ye not, oh, my favored sisters,
Just a plea, a prayer or a tear,
For mothers who dwell 'neath the shadows
Of agony, hatred and fear?

Frances Harper
Oh! how shall I speak of my proud country's shame
Of the stains on her glory, how give them their name? How say that her banner in mockery waves— Her star-spangled banner—o'er millions of slaves?

Frances Harper
Make me a grave where'er you will,
In a lovely plain, or a lofty hill;
Make it among earth's humblest graves,
But not in a land where men are slaves.

Frances Harper
But we soon got used to freedom,
Though the way at first was rough;
But we weathered through the tempest,
For slavery made us tough.

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

Frances Harper
Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.

Frances Harper
There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

Frances Harper
A landless people must be dependent upon the landed people.

Frances Harper