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We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
Angelina Grimke
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Angelina Grimke
Age: 74 †
Born: 1805
Born: February 20
Died: 1879
Died: October 26
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Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?
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Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.
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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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The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
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The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school in which human rights are more fully investigated and better understood and taught than in any other.
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I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.
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Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.
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The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.
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The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the individual their tendency is to sink the individual in the mass, to sacrifice his rights, and to immolate him on the altar of some fancied good.
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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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I am a mystery to myself.
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What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it
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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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There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.
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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.
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My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am bound to tell the North, go on!go on! Never falter, never abandon the principles which you have adopted.
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Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest inconsistencies on the one hand, or running into the most arrant absurdities on the other?
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We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
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One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.
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