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"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."
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"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
"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."
"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."
"Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves."
"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without."
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."
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"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."
"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."
"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."
"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
"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."
"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
"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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