Good kings Quote by Sarah Moore Grimke

“There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.”

Sarah Moore Grimke

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I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.

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Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the…

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An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

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[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.

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whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

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I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

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[On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did that work,…

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