Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes

1811–1896 · Litchfield, Connecticut

• A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protect injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved,—but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God!

• And is America safe? Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

• Mas'r, if you was sick, or in trouble, or dying, and I could save ye, I 'd give ye my heart's blood; and, if taking every drop of blood in this poor old body would save your precious soul, I 'd give 'em freely, as the Lord gave his for me.

• No! no! no! my soul an't yours, Mas'r! You have n't bought it,—ye can't buy it! It 's been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it…

• …what country have I, but the grave,—and I wish to God that I was laid there!

• I don't know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow.