I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak. I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWETreat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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?
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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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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It is generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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