“Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all be alike?”

About Lydia Maria Child

Activist • American

Lydia Maria Child was a leading 19th-century American abolitionist, women's rights activist, and author. She gained national prominence with her 1833 book, "An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called...