Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.”

“Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and passionate effervescence of romantic passion. His hour came,the hour that comes only once; his sta...”

“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”

“Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities. His fathers were mighty hunters, - men who lived in the woods, and slept under ...”

“But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like, and grinds me down into the very dirt! And why? Because, he says, I forgot who I was; he sa...”

“Couldn't never be nothin' but a nigger, if I was ever so good, said Topsy. If I could be skinned, and come white, I'd try then.”

“In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and outrage wrought by these wretches; because, if it were not for your sanction and influence, the whol...”

“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”

“Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads his way back to the terrors and perils of that dark l...”

“He was as bold as a lion about it, and 'mightily convinced' not only himself, but everybody that heard him;but then his idea of a fugitive was only an idea of the letters that spell the word,or at ...”

“It's pretty generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world. Now, when any one speaks up, like a man, and says slavery is ...”

“Alfred . . . stands, high and haughty, on that good old respectable ground, the right of the strongest; and he says, and I think quite sensibly, that the American planter is 'only doing, in another...”

“He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal ...”

“One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every poss...”

“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.”

“We ought to be free to meet and mingle, --to rise by our individual worth, without any consideration of caste or color; and they who deny us this right are false to their own professed principals o...”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world, said Alfred.”

“The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.”

“Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.”