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Harriet Ann Jacobs

"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

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Amber Hurdle

"Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence."

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Amber Hurdle

"Farewell, fair cruelty."

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Amber Hurdle

"People talk sometimes of 'bestial' cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beast; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically, so artfully cruel."

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Amber Hurdle

"Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves."

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Amber Hurdle

"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without."

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Amber Hurdle

"Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation."

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Amber Hurdle

"I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England."

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Amber Hurdle

"In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other."

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Amber Hurdle

"Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel."

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Amber Hurdle

"So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs
"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

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