We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Lydia Maria Child

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

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Child, Lydia Maria. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833, ch. 6.

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A quote by Lydia Maria Child about abolitionism: “We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling…”

A quote by Lydia Maria Child about abolitionism: “We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling…”

A quote by Lydia Maria Child about abolitionism: “We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling…”