Caroline Chisholm (30 May 1808 – 25 March 1877) was a progressive 19th-century English humanitarian known mostly for her involvement with female immigrant welfare in Australia. She is commemorated on 16 May in the Calendar of saints of the Church of England. There are proposals for the Catholic Church to also recognise her as a saint.
Read more about Caroline Chisholm: Early Life, Madras, India, Sydney, New South Wales, Migration Reforms and The Family Colonization Loan Society, Return To Australia and Later Life, Commemoration
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“I have eyes to see now what I have never seen before.”
—Anonymous, U.S. correspondence student. As quoted in The Life of Ellen H. Richards, ch. 9, by Caroline L. Hunt, quoting Ellen Swallow Richards (1912)
“... rhetoric never won a revolution yet.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)