Henry Ward Beecher: “It is ranking oneself with a slave by doing a slave's tasks; as eating…”

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It is ranking oneself with a slave by doing a slave's tasks; as eating a beggar's crust with him would be a beggar's fellowship.

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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher compares the act of performing menial tasks to associating oneself with a lower social status.

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Having given to America its ideas and its institutions, I think the North is bound to stand by them.

Yet, New-England, strong at home, compact, educated, right-minded; has gradually lost influence, and the whole North with her.

Is it my excited ear that hears an airy phantasm whispering? or do I hear a solemn voice crying out, "Arise?

If he must stand by what he is, how surely must he be given over to weakness, to abuse, to oppressions.

Henry Ward Beecher: “It is ranking oneself with a slave by doing a slave's tasks; as eating a beggar's crust with him would be a beggar's…”