Praise
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but".
 Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer and abolitionist
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| born | * June 24, 1813, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA | |
| died | † March 8, 1887 | |
| function | Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer and abolitionist | |
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| An advocate of Women's suffrage, temperance and Darwin's theory of evolution, [4] and a foe of slavery and bigotry of all kinds, religious, racial and social, Beecher held that Christianity should adapt itself to the changing culture of the times. Later, in the 1870s and 1880s, Beecher became a prominent advocate for allowing Chinese immigration to continue to the United States, and is credited for delaying the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act until 1882. Beecher compared Chinese immigrants favorably to Irish immigrants, and argued that excluding the former from entering the country while allowing the latter was an unjust practice. | |
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