Maria Weston Chapman Quotes

United States, Activist
July 25, 1806 – July, 12, 1885.

Maria Weston Chapman (July 25, 1806 – July 12, 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 The Non-Resistant.

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

Maria Weston Chapman
- Power
- Truth
- Freedom
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Maria Weston Chapman
- Good
- May
- Evil

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
- People
- Done
- Character
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Maria Weston Chapman
- Prayer
- Sacrifice