"Uncle Tom's Cabin" Quotes
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a novel that portrays the harsh realities of slavery in the United States through the experiences of the kind and devout Uncle Tom and other enslaved characters, ultimately influencing the abolitionist movement.
classics | Published in 2015
Quotes
The longest way must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.
For if we are to love our neighbors as ourselves, we are also to love ourselves as our neighbors.
I trust in the Lord; I know I can do what I think is right, and that no one will ever harm me for it.
It is a comforting reflection that, even in this world, we have so much in our own hands.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
There is one thing that every individual can do—they can see to it that they feel right.
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
