"If a law commands me to sin I……" — Angelina Grimke
"If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly."
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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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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where…
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Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
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As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New…
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those…
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that…
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
— Drew Barrymore
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people.…
— Bob Beauprez
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The…
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