Maria Weston Chapman Quotations

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong, The women have leaped from their spheres, And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along, And are setting the world by the ears!

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .