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Much of American history is made by little-known people living far from Washington.
education for girls and boys, Wollstonecraft proclaimed, “Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”
Taking positions that remained contentious well into the twenty-first century, he argued that crime was high among the Black population because they were denied access to the schools and jobs available to whites. Immigrants,
that women had the same right to rebel as the Founding Fathers—“the right to rise up and cut the tyrants’ throats.”
“The moral & intellectual degradation of woman increases in proportion to the homage paid by men to external charms.”
The only way to force adjustments in people’s thinking was to expose them to ideas they reflexively disagreed with.
“I know, and you know, that a revolution has begun. I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.”
“I think we may safely assume that the cry of the oppressed has reached the ear of God and that he has ‘come down to deliver them.’ ”
They were prophetic words, foreshadowing a question that the freed people of the South and Republicans often asked in the postwar decades: would Reconstruction have succeeded if Lincoln had lived?
Irish factory workers in Auburn were said to be planning an uprising against the Black population, and there were threats to burn down the Sewards’ house because
Do not all great thoughts come from the heart?”
after Lincoln told him that the inequality the soldiers faced was “a necessary concession” to those who didn’t believe they should serve at all.
“As much as white women need the ballot, colored women need it more.” She
do not believe that white women are dew-drops just exhaled from the skies.”
go away to prepare a place for you, and where I am you may be also.” She
