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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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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 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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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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The longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
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Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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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there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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