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"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."
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"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty."
"Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel."
"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."
"Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves."
"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without."
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"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."
"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word."
"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."
"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."
"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
"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."
"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."
"The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also."
"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
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