“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.”

— Anna Sewell , book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty (1877), Ch. XXXVIII, p. 192

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English novelist 1820–1878

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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.”