Social Empowerment Quotes
Muir was advocating extending the vote to male, non-land owners. He was convicted, sent to the Botany Bay prison colony in Australia, escaped to France, and his cause did later triumph.
By 1870 there were over 1000 schools in the South that had been founded and operated by the Freedmen’s Bureau. Despite the racist, negative stereotypes of Negroes, many of them were just the opposite from the stereotype as this quotation demonstrates.