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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Advantage Oppression Sorrow Struggle Talk
There is more done with pens than with swords.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Inspirational Strength Sword Weapon Writing
The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Busy Exception Marriage Woman World
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Blame Inspirational Necessary Praise Sunshine Time
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

God Myself Writing
It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Best Inspirational People Strong Support Weakness
The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Decision Drink Family Food Greatness Health Person Preparation
Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Better Choice Cold Dog Happiness Human Sleep
Self respect is impossible without liberty.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Impossible Liberty Respect
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Circle Goodness Greatness Ordinary Quality Soul View
He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Afford Himself Lose Risk
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Government Imagination Judgment
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Care Greatness Patience Trust Truth
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Clever Friendship Reason Sanity
O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Cold Money Sympathy
A woman’s health is her capital.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Capital Health Woman