Olympia Brown Quotes
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
Citations
Brown, Olympia. Suffrage and Religious Principle: Speeches and Writings of Olympia Brown. Edited by Dana Greene, Scarecrow Press, 1983.
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Olympia Brown was an American minister and suffragist. She was the first woman to be ordained as clergy with the consent of her denomination. Brown was also an articulate advocate for women's rights and one of the few first generation suffragists who were able to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
