Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up theheaving, cloggy mass.
Source: Life in the Iron Mills, in Atlantic Monthly, Apr 1861.
-- Rebecca Harding Davis, (Jun 24 1831-1910), US author, journalist, critic; She wrote Waiting for the Verdict, 1867 and Bits of Gossip, 1904.