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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.

Angelina Grimke's Popular Quotes

...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character…

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It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

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...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether in Churchor State; and that …

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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.

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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…

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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 nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

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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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