We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share
...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime… No… — Angelina Grimké Copy Share
