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 STOWEIt 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.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
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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.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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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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Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
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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, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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A woman’s health is her capital.
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