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Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
I can see why this is such an important book. I did not expect to be as absorbed as I was by the story. Although it does suffer from an overabundance of moralizing and the model minority myth, it's still a really great read. Definitely worth investing the time it takes to finish.
"Perhaps, said Miss Ophelia, "it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm."
"And what," said St. Clare, speaking abstractedly, but with deep feeling, "what shall be said of one whose own heart, whose education, and the wants of society, have called in vain to some noble purpose; who has floated on, a dreamy, neutral spectator of the struggles, agonies, and wrongs of man, when he should have been a worker?"
"I should say," said Miss Ophelia, "that he ought to repent, and begin now."
"Always practical and to the point!" said St. Clare, his face breaking out into a smile. "You never leave me any time for general reflections, Cousin; you always bring me short up against the actual present; you have a kind of eternal *now*, always in your mind."
"*Now* is all the time I have anything to do with," said Miss Ophelia.
*Does not appear on any of the ALA lists but was challenged and banned in the years after its publication, and continues to be subsequently challenged.
"Perhaps, said Miss Ophelia, "it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm."
"And what," said St. Clare, speaking abstractedly, but with deep feeling, "what shall be said of one whose own heart, whose education, and the wants of society, have called in vain to some noble purpose; who has floated on, a dreamy, neutral spectator of the struggles, agonies, and wrongs of man, when he should have been a worker?"
"I should say," said Miss Ophelia, "that he ought to repent, and begin now."
"Always practical and to the point!" said St. Clare, his face breaking out into a smile. "You never leave me any time for general reflections, Cousin; you always bring me short up against the actual present; you have a kind of eternal *now*, always in your mind."
"*Now* is all the time I have anything to do with," said Miss Ophelia.
*Does not appear on any of the ALA lists but was challenged and banned in the years after its publication, and continues to be subsequently challenged.