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 STOWESelf respect is impossible without liberty.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
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Self respect is impossible without liberty.
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A woman’s health is her capital.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Your little child is the only true democrat.
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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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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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