It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI 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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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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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Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
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Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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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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Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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