Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
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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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He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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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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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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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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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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The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
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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 truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
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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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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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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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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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