Frances Harper - Iola Leroy (1892)

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

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.

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I am not despondent to the future of my people; there's too much elasticity in their spirits, too much hope in their hearts, to be crushed out by unreasoning malice.

Frances Harper

It is easier to outgrow the dishonor of crime than the disabilities of color.

Frances Harper

What's the use of praying for a thing, if when it comes, you won't take it?

Frances Harper