Francis Blackwell may refer to:
- Francis Blackwell, known as Scrapper Blackwell, American blues musician of the 1920s and 30s
- Francis Blackwell Forbes, American trader in China during the nineteenth century
Famous quotes containing the word blackwell:
“Cynicism makes things worse than they are in that it makes permanent the current condition, leaving us with no hope of transcending it. Idealism refuses to confront reality as it is but overlays it with sentimentality. What cynicism and idealism share in common is an acceptance of reality as it is but with a bad conscience.”
—Richard Stivers, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline, ch. 1, Blackwell (1994)