For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life . . .
Source: What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?, Ch. 1, 1883.
-- Mary Ashton Livermore, (Dec 19 1820-1905), US journalist, social reformer, lecturer; She edited The Agitator, 1869 and Woman's Journal, 1870-72; lectured for 25 years for temperance and suffrage.