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Olympia Brown

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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.


— Olympia Brown


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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.


— Olympia Brown


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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.


— Olympia Brown


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Now that Brown had dedicated her life to the movement Olympia Brown looked to do all Olympia Brown could. Perhaps the crowning achievement of Olympia’s time at Antioch was her ability to persuade her hero Antoinette Brown to speak at Antioch. Olympia Brown's own papers and documents relating to her work are held at the Schlesinger Library in Cambridge Massachusetts the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and in the papers of the National Woman's Party at the Library of Congress.

She is regarded as the first woman to graduate from a theological school as well as becoming the first full-time ordained minister. Brown was also one of the few first generation suffragists who were able to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment. Olympia Brown (January 5 1835 – October 23 1926) was an American suffragist.

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