Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWitness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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My vocation to preach on paper.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people’s glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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