Writers are artists too!
When I decided to write this weekly post about Famous Artists, I did it because I had seen so many great quotes by artists. I decided to make a list of artist quotes to use as the basis for this feature.
As I was researching artists quotes for this week, every quote I looked at was from a writer. This writer had tons of great quotes, so today I give you
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher was a Congregationalist minister, as was his father and and an opponent of slavery who worked tirelessly for years to free slaves and encouraged President Abraham Lincoln to emancipate the slaves after the Civil War.
Beecher was born June 24, 1813 in Litchfield, CT and died March 8, 1887 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY of complications of prostrate cancer.
Beecher was born into a family who produced authors, teachers and activists. He was the 8th of 13 children and was closest to his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, who went on to write the activist novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
His father was a Congregationalist minister also and entertainment in the Beecher home came as church meetings, study, prayer, reading and fiddle music by their father. Beecher had quite the stutter as a child but became an inspiring orator when at age fourteen he joined a boarding school at Amherst, Massachusetts called ‘Mount Pleasant Classical Institution’ where he was trained to be an orator.
I hope you enjoyed learning a little bit about this orator and author Henry Ward Beecher and are inspired by a few of his quotes. You can se many more at the links below.
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