Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to … - Sarah Moore Grimke

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Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

Sarah Moore Grimke

Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the advantages enjoyed by men of the same class will lessen essentially the number of thoughtless, idle, vain and frivolous women and thus secure the [sic] society the services of those who now hang as dead weight?

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I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

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I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

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I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.

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An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

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whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

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