Reformers are apt to forget, in their reasoning, that the world is not made up entirely of the wicked and the hungry, there are persons hungry for the food of the mind, the wants of which are as imperious as those of the body […] Reformers are apt to forget too, that the social chain is indomitable; that link by link it acts together, you cannot lift one man above his fellows, but you lift the race of men.
Author: Maria Mitchell
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy
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