the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before elections, such pious goings on in all department… - Harriet Beecher Stowe

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother I was oppressed and broken-hearted, with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity — because as a lover of my country I trembled at the coming day of wrath. It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed — who cannot speak for themselves.

I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.