Abolitionist Quote by Jane Swisshelm

“Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.”

Jane Swisshelm

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I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish…

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If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace…

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Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the…

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The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which…

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When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

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It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in…

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Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.

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A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too,…

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I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key…

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Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other,…

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“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a…

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“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master…

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I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

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One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' -…

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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

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You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even…

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It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

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If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I…

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I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the…

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There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of…

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In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could…

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