Angelina Grimké Quotes

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.

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

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.

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

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

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

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.

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