Maria Weston Chapman

Maria Weston or Maria Weston Chapman (July 24, 1806–1885) was an American abolitionist. She was elected to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1839 and from 1839 until 1842, she served as editor of the anti-slavery journal, Non-Resistant.

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    We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
    —Maria Weston Chapman (1806–1885)

    He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
    —Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)

    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.
    —Maria Weston Chapman (1806–1885)

    Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)