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Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes: I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
         

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.


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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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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.



The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.



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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.



So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.



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.

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.



Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!



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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.





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