Maria W. Stewart Quote

Ingratitude is one of the worst passions that reigns in the human breast; it is this that cuts the tender fibers of the soul.


Speech to the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston (1832)


Ingratitude is one of the worst passions that reigns in the human breast; it is this that cuts the tender fibers of the soul.

Ingratitude is one of the worst passions that reigns in the human breast; it is this that cuts the tender fibers of the soul.

Ingratitude is one of the worst passions that reigns in the human breast; it is this that cuts the tender fibers of the soul.

Ingratitude is one of the worst passions that reigns in the human breast; it is this that cuts the tender fibers of the soul.