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Thomas W. Higginson Quotes


An American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823 – May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized African-American regiment, from 1862-1864. Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed slaves, women and other disenfranchised peoples.

Here are some famous quotes by Thomas W. Higginson.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

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Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

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When a thought takes one's breath away a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal or in other words a meddling government a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

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An easy thing O Power Divine To thank thee for these gifts of Thine For summer's sunshine winter's snow For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow; But when shall I attain to this- To thank Thee for the things I miss?