Famous Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.– Harriet Beecher Stowe
«It’s true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,» said Alfred.– Harriet Beecher Stowe
The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.– Harriet Beecher Stowe
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.– Harriet Beecher Stowe
«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.»– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Liberty! — Electric word!– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!– Harriet Beecher Stowe