John Greenleaf Whittier Quote

What! mothers from their children riven!
What! God's own image bought and sold!
Americans to market driven,
And bartered as the brute for gold!


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! Americans to market driven, And bartered as the brute for gold!

What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! Americans to market driven, And bartered as the brute for gold!

What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! Americans to market driven, And bartered as the brute for gold!

What! mothers from their children riven! What! God's own image bought and sold! Americans to market driven, And bartered as the brute for gold!