Reformers
19th century
Temperance
Most men would come home drunk doing a lot of violent things to their family.
--American Temperance Society
Temperance is moderation in things that are good and and total abstinence from the things that we are foul.
-frances E. wallard
Women's Right
(All men and woman are created equal)
More than 300 woman participated in the woman's right convection.
--Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To deny political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self respect
-Elizabeth cady
Education Reform
"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
- Horace Mann
Mental/prison Reform
By the time of her death, about 100 facilities were created.
"In a world where there is so much to be done, i felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. "
-Dorothea Dix
Abolition
"My country is the world, my countrymen are mankind."
-William Lloyd Garrison