The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAll men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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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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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
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I 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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There is more done with pens than with swords.
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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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