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Charlotte Stoker
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“England is known to provide so freely for the education of the poor of every other class without distinction of creed. Why should the deaf and dumb be the exception? Why should not a privilege be granted to the speechless poor which is so liberally bestowed on all others?”
Charlotte Stoker (1818–1901) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking to the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society in Ireland in 1863-05 saying schools for the deaf and dumb had been set up in many other countries but not England
“Any measure calculated to encourage virtue and subdue vice must be the wisest and best policy of a nation. In new countries there is a dignity in labour and a self-supporting woman is alike respected and respectable. Why should the door of hope be closed on those poor women, and why refuse them the means of attaining that independence in other countries which they are debarred from in this?”
Charlotte Stoker (1818–1901) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking to the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society in Ireland at the meeting after 1863-05 urging that there was need to educate woman who had become destitute and needed to go to the workhouse without money to emig…
“Charlotte Stoker's account of 'The Cholera Horror' in a letter to Bram Stoker (c. 1873)”
Charlotte Stoker (1818–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source