"Can you not see that women could do……" — Angelina Grimke
"Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?"
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18 Quotes by Angelina Grimke
Angelina Grimke has 18 quotes on this site.
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We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
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I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.
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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…
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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…
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What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that…
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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over…
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The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if…
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I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright,…
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I am a mystery to myself.
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We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
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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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I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable…
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More Fettered Quotes
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one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are…
— William Blake
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So free we seem, so fettered we are!
— Robert Browning
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The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of…
— Felix Frankfurter
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For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of…
— Bruce Schneier
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These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to…
— George Sutherland
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So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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It's a matter of seeing the original meaning of all things. The world is full of all kinds of meanings.…
— Yi Mun-yol
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The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be…
— Bertrand Russell
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The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how…
— Emma Goldman
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