Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn’t exactly appreciated, at first.
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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.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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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.
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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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