Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Lester Frank Ward
Born: June 18, 1841
Died: April 18, 1913 (aged 71)
Bio: Lester F. Ward was an American botanist, paleontologist, and sociologist. He served as the first president of the American Sociological Association.
Known for:
- Dynamic Sociology (1883)
- The Psychic Factors of Civilization (1892)
- Outlines of Sociology (1898)
- Glimpses of the Cosmos (1913)
- Applied Sociology (1906)







