I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed? — 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
