“ men with moral sense, and men with no moral sense whatever ”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854). copy citation
Author | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Source | Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands |
Topic | senses moral |
Date | 1854 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13945/13945-h/13945-h.htm |
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“We should always aim, in assailing the system of slavery, to awaken the consciences of those involved in it; for among slaveholders there are all kinds of moral development, as among every other class of people in the world. There are men of tender conscience, as well as men of blunted conscience; men with moral sense, and men with no moral sense whatever; some who have come into the system involuntarily, born in it, and others who have come into it voluntarily. There is a moral nature in every man, more or less developed; and according as it is developed we can, by showing the wrong of a thing, bring one to abhor it.”
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