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Harriet Ann Jacobs

"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

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"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

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

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

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

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"The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol."

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

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"Farewell, fair cruelty."

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

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"I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."

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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."

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"The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear."
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"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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"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."
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"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."
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"I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away."
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"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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"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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"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."
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"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."
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"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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