Elizabeth Armistead/statesman%E2%80%99s Respected Widow

Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth, respected and/or widow:

    “A great many will find fault in the resolution that the negro shall be free and equal, because our equal not every human being can be; but free every human being has a right to be. He can only be equal in his rights.”
    —Mrs. Chalkstone, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2, ch. 16, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage (1882)

    “But what’s the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.”
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    “For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Mark 12:44.

    Jesus watching the widow contribute her two mites.