
“I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
Letters
Olive Gilbert & Sojourner Truth (1878), Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Bondswoman of Olden Time, page 303.
“I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
Letters
“Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style”
From Memorial by William Hayes Ward to The Poems of Sidney Lanier (ed. Mary D Lanier)
The Canton, Ohio Speech, Anti-War Speech (1918)
Letter to her mother (14 March 1847)
Context: If, while I hear the shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth for the dumb, am I not guilty? Or should I go from house to house to do it, when I could tell so many more in less time, if they should be gathered in one place? You would not object or think it wrong, for a man to plead the cause of the suffering and the outcast; and surely the moral character of the act is not changed because it is done by a woman. I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex. I only ask that you will not withhold your consent from my doing anything that I think is my duty to do.
“Their cause I plead,—plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.”
Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776. Compare: "I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
Letter to Willis Everett, July 14, 1946. Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 14, citing Everett Papers in note 32.
As quoted in "Lindsay: "I Am Addicted to Alcohol and Drugs" at TMZ (23 August 2007) http://www.tmz.com/2007/08/23/lindsay-lohan-i-am-addicted-to-alcohol-and-drugs/8.