If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.
Frances HarperAs the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.
Frances HarperMy hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.
Frances HarperBut two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of a nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God's children.
Frances Harper