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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.
Angelina Grimke
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Angelina Grimke
Age: 74 †
Born: 1805
Born: February 20
Died: 1879
Died: October 26
Activist
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Suffragette
Charleston
South Carolina
Angelina Emily Grimké Weld
Angelina Grimke
Angelina Emily Grimke Weld
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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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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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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 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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Duty is ours and events are God's.
Angelina Grimke
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
Angelina Grimke
...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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Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.
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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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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 Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
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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.
Angelina Grimke
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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I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.
Angelina Grimke
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
Angelina Grimke
It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
Angelina Grimke
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
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?
Angelina Grimke
We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
Angelina Grimke
I want to be identified with the negro until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.
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