Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. - Anna Sewell

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Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.

Anna Sewell

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

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What right had they to make me suffer like that?

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My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

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There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

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Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

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Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?. . . It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light. . . My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

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