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The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the individual; their tendency is to sink the individual in the mass, to sacrifice his rights, and to immolate him on the altar of some fancied good.

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…

- Angelina Grimke

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.

- Angelina Grimke

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

- Angelina Grimke