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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.
Angelina Grimke
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Angelina Grimke
Age: 74 †
Born: 1805
Born: February 20
Died: 1879
Died: October 26
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Angelina Emily Grimké Weld
Angelina Grimke
Angelina Emily Grimke Weld
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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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So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.
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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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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 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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We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
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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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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 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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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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...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.
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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 doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.
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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation
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