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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere are griefs which grow with years.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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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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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
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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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True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
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It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
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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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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
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