She says she looked around her. saw what was happening. and decided she wouldnt wait for the next person to do something. Shed do it herself. At least part of her motivation came from her father. Charles M. Higgins. an Irish immigrant who came to the United States as a boy. Higgins invented Higgins American India ink. went on to found the Higgins Ink Company and became one of Brooklyns foremost philanthropists and civic leaders. He had inscribed on the familys tomb in Brooklyns Greenwood Cemetary these words from Matthew VII12. "Whatsoever Ye Would That Men Should Do To You.
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