"I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner."

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I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It makes the white fathers cruel and sensual; the sons violent and licentious; it contaminates the daughters, and makes the wives wretched. And as for the colored race, it needs an abler pen than mine to describe the extremity of their sufferings, the depth of their degradation.

— Harriet Ann Jacobs