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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?

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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Charleston
South Carolina
Angelina Emily Grimké Weld
Angelina Grimke
Angelina Emily Grimke Weld
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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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So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.
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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.
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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 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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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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