They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians! Lydia M. Child More Quotes by Lydia M. Child More Quotes From Lydia M. Child Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. Lydia M. Child success motivational inspirational An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. Lydia M. Child helping-others happy happiness Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do. Lydia M. Child spirit wise doe You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy. Lydia M. Child encouraging inspirational people Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is. Lydia M. Child wickedness half people our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings to whom a position of perpetual subordination is assigned, however much they may be petted and flattered, must inevitably be dwarfed, morally and intellectually. Lydia M. Child government class ideas Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will. Lydia M. Child miracle love giving The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes. Lydia M. Child assessment being-yourself nature Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father. Lydia M. Child fathers-day family children Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. Lydia M. Child angel flower love The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. Lydia M. Child love peace lying Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant. Lydia M. Child ignorant prejudice mind Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism. Lydia M. Child glowing age heart We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. Lydia M. Child crush diversity people I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book. Lydia M. Child acquaintance female book The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully. Lydia M. Child attainment aging grows Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Lydia M. Child angel clouds reality Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. Lydia M. Child angel clouds men affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will. Lydia M. Child trumpets blow reality No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father. Lydia M. Child music-is ears father
