Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin Quotes
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
«Couldn't never be nothin' but a nig*er, if I was ever so good, » said Topsy. «If I could be skinned, and come white, I'd try then.»
In the midst of life we are in death, '" said Miss Ophelia.
...the heart has no tears to give, --it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
I tell you, " said Augustine, "if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class becomes the upper one.
The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.