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Quote from Lydia M. Child,


"England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland."


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Lydia M. Child (more quotes by Lydia M. Child or books by/about Lydia M. Child)


(1802-1880) American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, and journalist

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Freedom, America, Victory

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