Civil war Quote by Angelina Grimke

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

— Angelina Grimke

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

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

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

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

— Angelina Grimke

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

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

— Angelina Grimke

I am a mystery to myself.

— Angelina Grimke

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

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

— Angelina Grimke

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

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

— Angelina Grimke