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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.

Angelina Grimke

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Angelina Grimke
Age: 74 †
Born: 1805
Born: February 20
Died: 1879
Died: October 26
Activist
Politician
Suffragette
Charleston
South Carolina
Angelina Emily Grimké Weld
Angelina Grimke
Angelina Emily Grimke Weld
Either
Petty
Nations
Wholly
Free
Tyrants
War
Vast
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Slavery
Become
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Struggle
Land

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