Slavery Quotes by Angelina Grimke

9 Slavery quotes by Angelina Grimke

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Angelina Grimke’s nine reflections on slavery capture the urgency of her 19th‑century advocacy. Though brief, the selection showcases her moral clarity and the personal conviction that propelled her to speak out against bondage.

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The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the…

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One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

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Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

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The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the…

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...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and…

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I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation…

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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North,…

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The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have…

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Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as…

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When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance…

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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…

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I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.…

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Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

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The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the…

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So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

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I am a mystery to myself.

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Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men…

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I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

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The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right…

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One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

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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…

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Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest…

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...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime… No…

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