Angelina Grimke

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

— Angelina Grimke

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all…

— Angelina Grimke

...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be…

— Angelina Grimke

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and…

— Angelina Grimke

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great…

— Angelina Grimke

“The ground upon which you stand is holy ground:never-never surrender it.”

— Angelina Grimke

The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the…

— Angelina Grimke

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as…

— Angelina Grimke

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must…

— Angelina Grimke

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in…

— Angelina Grimke

“it matters not what we have been but this an always this: what we shall be.”

— Angelina Grimke

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of…

— Angelina Grimke

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human…

— Angelina Grimke

I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is…

— Angelina Grimke

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take…

— Angelina Grimke

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

— Angelina Grimke

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation…

— Angelina Grimke

The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the…

— Angelina Grimke