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We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Lydia M. Child

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Lydia M. Child
Age: 78 †
Born: 1802
Born: January 1
Died: 1880
Died: January 1
Activist
Geologist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Lydia Maria Francis Child
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Prostrate
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People
Diversity
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