Quotes by Schreiner, Olive

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should >>

I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into >>

There was never a great man who had not a great mother. >>

Quotations about Slavery

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of >>

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery. >>

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. I >>

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

Schreiner, Olive