Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske, (1830–85) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor. Her novel Ramona dramatized the federal government’s mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted considerable attention to her cause. Commercially popular, it was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times and most readers liked its romantic and picturesque qualities rather than its political content. The novel was so popular that it attracted many tourists to Southern California who wanted to see places from the book.
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Motherhood is priced
Of God, at price no man may dare
To lessen or misunderstand.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Mothers
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, love.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Reflection
Oh, write of me, not “Died in bitter pains,” but “Emigrated to another star!”
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Epitaphs
It is the weakness and danger of republics that the vices as well as virtues of the people are represented in their legislation.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep will never find the ready hour to sow.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Secrets of Success
Men call fretting a minor fault—a foible and not a vice.—But there is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace and happiness of a home.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Seasons, Autumn
Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; all great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Love
Who longest waits most surely wins.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Topics: Patience, Resilience
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