There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift … - Angelina Grimke

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When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.

Angelina Grimke

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.

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

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I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

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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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