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By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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.
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- Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, vol. I (1852), 1852 · Vol. I, Chapter IX, "In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man", p. 121
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- Internet Archive (scan of vol. I of the 1852 two-volume edition, Boston: John P. Jewett & Company; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington)
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From Chapter IX, "In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man", of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852, vol. I). Spoken by the character Mrs. Bird to her husband, a senator who voted for the Fugitive Slave Law.