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"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."
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"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 would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows."
"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."
"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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