The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe 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.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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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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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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