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We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

~Angelina Grimke

Topics: Abolition Down Turning Upside Upside Down Women Women Are World

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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

Topics: Accused Been Colored Denied Education Feel Him Inferiority Liberal Liberal Education Like Man Mental Ought Peculiar Privileges She Sympathy Women Wrong

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I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?

~Angelina Grimke

Topics: Appeal Back Children Enslave Friends Horror Imposed Indignation Mothers Questions Slavery Stare Those Whom Why Willing Wrong You Your

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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.

~Angelina Grimke

Topics: Break Calls Commands Course Law Me Sin Suffer Take Will

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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.

~Angelina Grimke

Topics: Because Before Important More Must Order Placed Pray Praying Reading Regard Understand

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Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

~Angelina Grimke

Topics: Could Hundred Hundred Times More See She Slave Times Were Women Would You

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I am a mystery to myself.

~Angelina Grimke

Topics: Am Myself Mystery I Am

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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.

~Angelina Grimke

Topics: Able Been Capacity Colored Common Common Sense Crush Does Doubts Efforts Intellectual Know Man Mind Nation Never Now Our People Portion Race Sense Who Woman

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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.

~Angelina Grimke

Topics: Act Bonds Brethren Case Denial Despair Duty Like Lips May Must North Our Right Seal Silence Slaves Then Well White

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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.

~Angelina Grimke

Topics: Christian Demoralizing Die Exert Exerted Faithful Flame Holy Indignation Influence Moral Much North Only Over Rebuke Slavery South Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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