Olympia Brown Quotes

A collection of quotes by Olympia Brown.

Olympia Brown (1835-1926) was a prominent American suffragist, women's rights advocate, and Universalist minister. She was the first woman in the United States to be ordained as a minister in 1863. Brown tirelessly fought for women's suffrage, delivering numerous speeches and organizing campaigns for equal rights. She played a crucial role in the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Throughout her life, Brown championed gender equality, urging women to claim their rightful place in society.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

Olympia Brown

Christianity

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonde

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Olympia Brown

Science

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a pers

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Olympia Brown

Happiness