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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWETreat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
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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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There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.
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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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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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O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
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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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Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
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It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
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Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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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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In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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