Quotes by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till >>

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, >>

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

Quotations about Slavery

I cannot be fired. Slaves have to be sold. >>

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate >>

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave. >>

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher