Henry Ward Beecher

Date of Birth:

24-Jun-1813

Nationality:

United States

Profession:

Statesperson

Henry Ward Beecher was a respected American theologian, preacher, and social activist. Reexamining his beliefs about the abolition of slavery and God's unconditional love has left a lasting impression on American history. His sermons proclaimed the adornment of God's mercy over punishment, and his speeches were a humorous and humorous way of substituting ordinary evidence. During the civil war, he raised money to free men and women from slavery and to support the Union. Unlike other clergymen who opposed the theory of evolution, Henry Beecher espoused the doctrine, arguing that it was not in conflict with the Christian faith. As an ambassador for the Women’s Suffrage and a supporter of the Temperance Movement, she advocated for the necessary change in community upliftment. Contrary to her profession, she was accused of being a feminist, and was allegedly in love with a woman named Elizabeth Tilton. The news came from all the media and Theodore Tilton, Elizabeth's husband, filed a lawsuit against Beecher. The entire case was covered by the media and became one of the most widely reported cases in the United States.

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QUOTES BY Henry Beecher

"Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all"

"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."

"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

"We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves."

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

"The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''."

"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk."

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."

"In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands"

"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."