Famous Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

  • Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! – Harriet Beecher Stowe

    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

    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

    «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 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

    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

    «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

    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

    Liberty! — Electric word!– Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed – Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed– Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes! – Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!– Harriet Beecher Stowe