The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free. — 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 Image
When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity… — 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 Image
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite… — 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 Image
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 Image
So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
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 Image
I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
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 Image
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
