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Angelina Grimke

Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (February 20, 1805 – October 26, 1879) was an American political activist, women's rights advocate, supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and besides her sister, Sarah Moore Grimké, the only known white Southern woman to be a part of the abolition movement. While she was raised a Southerner, she spent her entire adult life living in the North. The time of her greatest fame was between 1836, when a letter she sent to William Lloyd Garrison was published in his anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, and May 1838, when she gave a speech to abolitionists gathered in Philadelphia, with a hostile crowd throwing stones and shouting outside the hall. The essays and speeches she produced in that two-year period were incisive arguments to end slavery and to advance women's rights.

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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.

Adopted, Country, People, Perishing, War

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.

Grow, Men, Moral, Nature, Rights

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.

Commit, Education, Enable, Heart, Mind, Minds

Duty is ours and events are God's.

Duty, Events

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.

Commands, Law, Sin, Suffer, Suffering

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.

School, Rights, Understanding, Human, Understood

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.

Denial, Despair, North, Silence, White

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

Blind, Doctrine, Libertarian, Power, Unqualified

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?

Committing, Equality, Inconsistencies, Men, Running

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

Crush, Know, Men, Nation, Race

So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.

Buried, Earth, Given, Napkins, Talent

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.

Bosom, Calmness, Heart, Men, Moral

I am a mystery to myself.

Mystery

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

Order, Slavery, Natural, Wherever, Produce

When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.

Committed, Men, Morally, Responsibility, Sex, Woman

We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.

Know, Knows, Matter, Matters, What Matters

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

Heart, Race Relations, Recognizes, Slave, Slaveholder, Slavery

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.

Beecher, Essentially, Men, Moral, Perfect, Rights

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

Children, Coming, Employment, Occupation, Time

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.

Important, Order, Placed, Pray, Reading, Regard

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