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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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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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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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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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One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.
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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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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 am a mystery to myself.
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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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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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We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
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I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
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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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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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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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It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
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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 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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We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
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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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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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