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I am a mystery to myself.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Am
Myself
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Duty is ours and events are God's.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Duty
Events
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I recognize no rights but human rights.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Human Rights
Humans
Rights
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We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Women
Abolition
Upside Down
World
World Upside Down
Women Are
Turning
Down
Upside
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One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Heart
Race Relations
Slavery
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We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Has Beens
Matter
What Matters
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It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Pens
Tongue
Truth Is
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I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Rights
Want
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I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Men
Humans
Rights
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So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Earth
Napkins
Talent
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Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Art
Women
Principles
Rights
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Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
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Hundred
Slave
Women See More
Hundred Times
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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.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Break
Law
Sin
Suffering
Calls
Commands
Course
Suffer
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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 / Hall Of Fame Inductee
War
Land
Struggle
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I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Trust
Children
Employment
Honorable
Occupation
Coming
Deemed
Instructor
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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.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Natural
Order
Slavery
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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Doctrine
Libertarian
Unqualified
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Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.
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Conflict
England
Father
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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.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Important
Order
Reading
Regard
Pray
Placed
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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Men
Sympathy
Accused
Denied
Inferiority
Liberal Education
Ought
Peculiar
Colored
Liberal
Mental
Privileges
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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.
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Men
Moral
Rights
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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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Men
Heart
Moral
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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.
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War
Country
People
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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Blind
Blind Obedience
Despotism
Doctrine
Human Power
Obedience
Ought
Submission
Unqualified
Among
Any
Christians
Civil
Ecclesiastical
Human
Republicans
Place
Whether
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I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Friends
Children
Horror
Indignation
Slavery
Willing
Why
Questions
Appeal
Back
Wrong
Enslave
Imposed
Mothers
Stare
Whom
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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.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Education
Commit
Cultivation
Heart
Mind
Sin
Love God Great
Perform
Enable
Forbid
Hearts
Minds
Prevent
To Love
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...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 can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.
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Believe
Character
Responsibility
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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?
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Equality
Running
Men
Hands
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Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?
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Daughter
Country
Mother
Wife
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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation
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Christian
Faithful
Flames
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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
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Demoralizing
Faithful
Holy
Indignation
Influence
Moral
Rebuke
Slavery
Exert
Flame
North
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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.
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Brethren
Denial
Despair
Lips
Silence
White
Act
Bonds
Case
North
Seal
Slaves
Termed
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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
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Men
Crush
Race
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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.
Angelina Grimke / Hall Of Fame Inductee
Capacity
Common
Common Sense
Crush
Intellectual
Race
Annihilate
Colored
Nation
Doubts
Efforts
Portion
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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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Rights
School
Understanding
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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.
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Organization
Rights
Sacrifice
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The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.
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Lying
Mean
Wall
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I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.
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Men
Children
Honor
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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.
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Men
Perfect
Rights
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I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is morally wrong for her to do,it is morally wrong for him to do. The fallacious doctrine of male and female virtues has well nigh ruined all that is morally great and lovely in his character: he has been quite as deep a sufferer by it as woman, though mostly in different respects and by other processes.
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Character
Lovely
Males
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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.
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Men
Responsibility
Sex
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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 the present arrangements of society, on these points, are a violation of human rights, a rank usurpation of power, a violent seizure and confiscation of what is sacredly and inalienably hers--and thus inflicting upon woman outrageous wrongs, working mischief incalculable in the social circle, and in its influence on the world producing only evil, and that continually.
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Believe
Law
Rights
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Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights – I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.
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Jesus
Men
Rights
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