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...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.

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
Duty
Oppression
Responsibility
Destroy
Individual
Slavery
Character
Slave
Matter
South
Believe
Sin
Rebuke
Masters
Robbery
Crime
Slaves

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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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One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.
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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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Duty is ours and events are God's.
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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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I recognize no rights but human rights.
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The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.
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Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.
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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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Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.
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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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I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.
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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.
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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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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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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 the privileges of a liberal education.
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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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I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
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So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.
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