"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers:……" — Angelina Grimke
"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?"
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Angelina Grimke
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18 Quotes by Angelina Grimke
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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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