

“Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... 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.”
― Black Beauty
― Black Beauty

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”
― Black Beauty
― Black Beauty

“It is good people who make good places.”
― Black Beauty
― Black Beauty

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham - all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out and put down for what they”
― Black Beauty
― Black Beauty

“If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”
― Black Beauty
― Black Beauty
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