Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

«Its true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,» said Alfred.

Treat em like dogs, and youll have dogs works and dogs actions. Treat em like men, and youll have mens works.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before elections, such pious goings on in all departments of church and state, that a fellow does not know wholl cheat him next.

Her husband’s suffering and dangers, and the danger of her child, all blended in her mind, with a confused and stunning sense of the risk she was running, in leaving the only home she had ever known, and cutting loose from the protection of a friend whom she loved and revered. Then there was the parting from every familiar object,—the place where she had grown up, the trees under which she had played, the groves where she had walked many an evening in happier days, by the side of her young husband,—everything, as it lay in the clear, frosty starlight, seemed to speak reproachfully to her, and ask her whither could she go from a home like that?

They will raise, and raise with them their mothers side.

It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.

Well, said St. Clare, suppose that something shoul bring down the price of cotton once and forever, and make the whole slave property a drug in the market, dont you think we should soon have another version of the Scripture doctrine? What flood of light would pour the church, all at once, and immediately it would be discovered that everything in the bible and reason went the other way.

The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always! it cant be helped, etc.; and he walks off, with his acquisition, in another direction.

It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange of affection. There is not on earth a more merciless extractor of love from others than a thoroughly selfish woman; and the more unlovely she grows, the more jealously and scrupulously she extracts love, to the uttermost farthing.

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness in the dust of daily life has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid rich and fanciful.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls why doesnt somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

The past the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Cause Is wicked - I is. Is mighty wicked anyhow I cant help it.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.