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"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."
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"Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel."

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

"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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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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