Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Slaves

• The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheer, Children, Book

  "Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers". Book by David W. Bartlett, 1856.

• The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Slave, Masters

• There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Heaven, Slave

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.418

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