Original: «We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them».
Fuente: Adams, John. The Portable John Adams. Colaborador Jack Diggins. Editorial Penguin, 2004. ISBN 9781440650963. p. 144.
Fuente: Carta a John Adams, 1774.
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Frases célebres de Abigail Adams
Original: «I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me — to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have».
Fuente: Citado en Schneider, Dorothy; Schneider, Carl J.Slavery in America American Experience. Edición revisada. Editorial Infobase Publishing, 2014. ISBN 9781438108131. p. 197.
Fuente: Carta a John Adams, 24 de septiembre de 1774.
Original: «I can not say that I think you very generous to the Ladies, for whilst you are proclaiming peace and good will to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives. But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken — and notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims we have it in our power not only to free ourselves but to subdue our masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet».
Fuente: Citado en Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn. American Women Activists' Writings: An Anthology, 1637-2001. Editor Cooper Square Press, 2002. ISBN 9781461698746. p. 17.
Fuente: Carta de Abigail a John Adams, Braintree, 7 de mayo de 1776.
Original: «I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance».
Fuente: Adams, John. The Portable John Adams. Colaborador Jack Diggins. Editorial Penguin, 2004. ISBN 9781440650963. p. 152.
Fuente: Carta a John Adams, 27 de noviembre de 1775.
Original: «The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community».
Fuente: The American Revolution and the Young Republic: 1763 to 1816. Autor Britannica Educational Publishing. Editor Wallenfeldt, Jeff. Editorial Britannica Educational Publishing, 2011. ISBN 9781615307166. p. 116.
Fuente: Carta a John Adams, 27 de noviembre de 1775.
Original: «It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne».
Fuente: Carta a John Thaxter, 15 de febrero de 1778.
Abigail Adams: Frases en inglés
“Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?”
Letter to John Adams (7 May 1776)
“Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.”
Letter to John Adams (5 August 1776)
“Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.”
Letter to John Adams (13 February 1779)
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”
Letter to John Thaxter (29 September 1778)
“I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.”
Letter to John Adams (30 June 1778)
Letter to John Thaxter (15 February 1778)
Letter to John Quincy Adams (19 January 1780)
Cited in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
https://historicipswich.org/2022/01/18/abigail-adams-to-john-adams-all-men-would-be-tyrants-if-they-could/
“Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs, which treat us only as the vessels of your sex.”
Cited in: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
