Fanny Kemble Quotes

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
Fanny Kemble

Everything, Done

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
Fanny Kemble

Good, Great, Simplicity

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
Fanny Kemble

Women, Great, Either

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.
Fanny Kemble

Enjoy, Free, Between

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
Fanny Kemble

Nothing, Find, Again

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
Fanny Kemble

Daily, Again, Walk

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
Fanny Kemble

Power, Sometimes, Show

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.
Fanny Kemble

Thought, Said, Manly

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble

Hope, Live, Single

The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
Fanny Kemble

Power, Master, Bound

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
Fanny Kemble

Weather, Road, Excitement

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
Fanny Kemble

Time, Great, Government

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
Fanny Kemble

Human, Blood, Order

Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
Fanny Kemble

Women, Morning, Once

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.
Fanny Kemble

Prove, Thousands, Slaves

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Nationality: English

Born: 1809

Died: 1893

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