Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Quotations No race can afford to neglect the enlightenment of its mothers. EnlightenedMotherhood by frances EW harper. More Quotations Indexed by Name. http://womenshistory.about.com/library/qu/blquharp.htm
Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About History Women's History Home ... Today in Women's History zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); About Women: Biographies African American Air, Space, Science, Math Art, Music. Writing. Media ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Subscribe to the About Women's History newsletter. Search Women's History Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Women's Voices: Quotations by Women Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis We want more soul, a higher cultivation of all spiritual faculties. We need more unselfishness, earnestness, and integrity. We need men and women whose hearts are the homes of high and lofty enthusiasm and a noble devotion to the cause of emancipation, who are ready and willing to lay time, talent, and money on the altar of universal freedom. No race can afford to neglect the enlightenment of its mothers. More Quotations - Indexed by Name All A B C ... Z Explore Women's History: Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2003. This is an informal collection if you need citations for the original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the quotes.
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Extractions: Lines At the Portals of the Future Full of madness, guilt and gloom, Stood the hateful form of Slavery, Crying, "Give, Oh! give me room— "Room to smite the earth with cursing, Room to scatter, rend and slay, From the trembling mother's bosom Room to tear her child away; "Harper: "Room to trample on the manhood Of the country far and wide; Room to spread o'er every Eden Slavery's scorching lava-tide." Pale and trembling stood the Future, Quailing 'neath his frown of hate, As he grasped with bloody clutches The great keys of Doom and Fate. In his hand he held a banner All festooned with blood and tears: 'Twas a fearful ensign, woven With the grief and wrong of years. On his brow he wore a helmet Decked with strange and cruel art; Every jewel was a life-drop Wrung from some poor broken heart. Though her cheek was pale and anxious, Wet, with look and brow sublime, By the pale and trembling Future Stood the Crisis of our time. And from many a throbbing bosom Came the words in fear and gloom, "Tell us, oh! thou coming Crisis, What shall be our country's doom?
Poets' Corner - Index Of Poets - Letters G,H BB). frances EW harper. (18251911) African American Poet, Essayist,and Novelist The Slave Mother (JL); Songs for the People (JL); http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/poem-gh.html
Extractions: Poets' Corner Home Page News and Recent Additions I T shall flash through coming ages; It shall light the distant years; And eyes now dim with sorrow Shall be clearer through their tears. It shall flush the mountain ranges; And the valleys shall grow bright; It shall bathe the hills in radiance, And crown their brows with light. It shall flood with golden splendor All the huts of Caroline, And the sun-kissed brow of labor With lustre new shall shine. It shall gild the gloomy prison, Darken'd by the nation's crime, Where the dumb and patient millions Wait the better coming time. By the light that gilds their prison, They shall seize its mould'ring key, And the bolts and bars shall vibrate With the triumphs of the free. Like the dim and ancient chaos, Shrinking from the dawn of light, Oppression, grim and hoary, Shall cower at the sight. And her spawn of lies and malice Shall grovel in the dust, While joy shall thrill the bosoms Of the merciful and just.
Frances E. W. Harper frances EW harper (Special thanks to Judy Boss.). Selections fromSketches of Southern Life (1891) by frances EW harper. I Thirst http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/writHarper.htm
Frances E. W. Harper frances EW harper. WANDERER S RETURN. My home is so glad, my heart isso light, My wandering boy has returned top;night. He is blighted http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/writHarperWander.htm
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SSSL: Bibliography: Writers: Frances E. W. Harper Writers frances EW harper. Reconstructing Literary Genealogies frances EWharper s and William Dean Howell s Race Novels , M. Giulia Fabi (1999); http://www.missq.msstate.edu/sssl/view.php?wid=44
Frances E. W. Harper Enlightened Motherhood An Address Before The Brooklyn Literary Societyby Mrs. frances EW harper Women s Rights Pioneer. November 15, 1892. http://gos.sbc.edu/h/harperf.html
Extractions: Women's Rights Pioneer November 15, 1892 While politicians may stumble on the barren mountain of fretful controversy, and men, lacking faith in God and the invisible forces which make for righteousness, may shrink from the unsolved problems of the hour, into the hands of Christian women comes the opportunity of serving the ever blessed Christ, by ministering to His little ones and striving to make their homes the brightest spots on earth and the fairest types of heaven. The school may instruct and the church may teach, but the homes is an institution older than the church and antedates schools, and that is the place where children should be trained for useful citizenship on earth and a hope of holy companionship in heaven. Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist. I do not mean by this that every woman should be a painter, sculptor, musician, poet, or writer, but the artist who will write on the table of childish innocence thoughts she will not blush to see read in the light of eternity and printed amid the archives of heaven, that the young may learn to wear them as amulets around their hearts and throw them as bulwarks around their lives, and that in the hour of temptation and trial the voices from home may linger around their paths as angles of guidance, around their steps, and be incentives to deeds of high and holy worth. The home may be a humble spot, where there are no velvet carpets to hush your tread, no magnificence to surround your way, nor costly creations of painter's art or sculptor's skill to please your conceptions or gratify your tastes; but what are the costliest gifts of fortune when placed in the balance with the confiding love of dear children or the devotion of a noble and manly husband whose heart can safely trust in his wife? You may place upon the brow of a true wife and mother the greenest laurels; you may crowd her hands with civic honors; but, after all, to her there will be no place like home, and the crown of her motherhood will be more precious than the diadem of a queen.
Extractions: Return to front page By: Caitlin Connolly, Stacia Casillo, and Shenice Hackett Phillis Wheatley, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Francis E. W. Harper were all groundbreaking and poignant authors whose works have remained influential throughout time. Feminism, politics, and religion are three aspects evident in their personal lives an d literature. Wheatley was considered a feminist icon because she was the first published African American female poet. However, her writing did not deal with feminist issues, rather, they focussed on religious and political themes. Unlike Wheatley, Harper's femi nist views are incorporated into her work. She uses religion as a method to express her political and social views. Dunbar-Nelson, a writer of all genres, brought together her personal beliefs and activism into many pieces of her work. Political and fe minist issues were important aspects of her personal life, which served as important themes throughout her literature. Religion, while not as prevalent, also presented itself, most specifically through her poetry. Phillis Wheatley is the first published African American writer. She was born in 1753 in West Africa. She was kidnapped from Africa and sold as a slave when she was around seven or eight years old. She was purchased by a wealthy family that taught h er how to read and write. Wheatley showed great intelligence in her writing style.
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Extractions: Chaste in language, moral in character, and fiery in spirit, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, abolitionist, feminist, Christian writer, and temperance and women's rights organizer, was truly a 19th century Rennaisance woman of letters. Born on September 24, 1825, to a free black woman and unknown father, Frances poignantly wrote 34 years later, "Oh, is it not a privilege, if you are sisterless and lonely, to be a sister to the human race, and to place your heart where it may throb close to downtrodden humanity." Filled with courage, compassion, danger, difficulty and intelligence, her life and work shine light on that period of American history after the Civil War which so cruelly combined progress and goodness, racist backsliding and fear. In an era where it was deemed unseemly, if not shocking, for an unmarried, young woman, black or white, to address mixed audiences of men and women, the Maine Antislavery Society helped launch a lifelong career, when, in 1854, they hired Frances Ellen Watkins, at age 29, to speak on their behalf. A radical antebellum abolitionist, Miss Watkins preached and practiced the politics of Free Produce, urging economic boycotts of slave-produced goods. Denied appointment as an agent because of obdurate sexism, Frances Watkins, nevertheless, collected donations for the Underground Railroad and counted among her friends Frederick Douglass, William Still, John Brown, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman. After the abolition of slavery, she was especially concerned with helping women understand they could and should use their time and talents to achieve "high and lofty goals."
