Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
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- For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don’t give ye a mother but once. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- …the heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes! – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Liberty! — Electric word! – 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
- The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome. – 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
- 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
- Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Water has no hands,but carries great ships.Air has no shoulders,but carries large planes.The Sun has no eyes,but finds its way around the universe. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art. – William Saroyan
- the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise. – Lemony Snicket
- In reality the concept of -˜other nation’ is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country – Martin Luther King Jr
- Choice of justice is better than injustice if even you got hold of the injustice it from any since that since is nonsense. – MRishad Sakhi
- Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom. – Carol Weekes
- Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity. – John Ciardi
- The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love. – Andrew Murray
- …a broken nation, under siege, divisible, without liberty and injustice for a lot… – Jeffrey G Duarte
- People who speak less, they usually pray a lot. I think that a great nation is a nation of prayer. – Alin Sav
- There is nothing near as powerful in making a nation great like establishing values and virtues upon a nation. – Sunday Adelaja
- If a nation blames other nations for its problems, most likely that nation will always be having problems. – Debasish Mridha
- A song rises up from the belly of my pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories. – Brenda Sutton Rose
- These hands elate my life, choke me, broil my bosom, spank me, give fire to my words, my words, mother, my heart beats in my words. – Laura Gentile
- Never stretch your neck to see who is not doing it big. Look into your bosom, and realize that you can do it bigger! Go, create a brighter picture! – Israelmore Ayivor
- I have a mouth for kisses / No one to give or to take / I have a heart in my bosom / Beating for nobody’s sake. – Lana Citron
- Don’t that make your bosom plim? – Thomas Hardy
- Her tears still lay, unattended, on my bosom…I wouldn’t wipe them, for she might stop paying me visits. – Aporva Kala
- Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Otaguro’s bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. -œEvery man is fighting,- he murmured. -œEvery man. – Yukio Mishima
- Wind has no feet,but travels great distances,and has no hands,but carries great objects. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them. – George W Bush
- Honesty is one of the key elements to a great relationship. If you cannot be honest with your partner, stay single. – Kemi Sogunle
- Every great dream begins with a dreamer – Harriet Tubman