Henry Brooks Adams

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    She atoned for want of devotion to God, by devotion to man. She had a woman’s natural tendency towards asceticism, self-extinction, self-abnegation.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    ... The festival-colored brightness
    That is their motion ...
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me—to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
    —Abigail Adams (1744–1818)