Instead of being in love with the virtue exhibited by the individual, because it is virtue, he is delighted with the personal convenience he experiences from the exercise of that virtue.
Angelina Emily Grimké
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Angelina Emily Grimké Weld was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. At one point she was the best known, or "most notorious," woman in the country. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were considered the only notable examples of white Southern women abolitionists. The sisters lived together as adults, while Angelina was the wife of abolitionist leader Theodore Dwight Weld.
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Now it appears to me, so far from her station forbidding all interference to modify the character and conduct of her employer, that that station peculiarly qualifies her for the difficult and delicate task, because nursery maids often know…
No station or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.
What more do we need to show us the bloody hands and iron heart of Slavery?
So far from thinking slavery a sin, or that I had no right to own the slaves inherited from my father, I thought no one could venture to dispute that right, any more than he could my right to his land or his stock.
I think the abolitionists have done, and are doing a great deal of good, by holding slavery up to the public gaze.
Those who view with horror the traffic in slaves by ministers of the gospel, express more freely their pain at its indulgence, than I have ever known.
I shall never forget my feelings when the subject was first hit upon in the Evangelist.
Send us facts--send us kind remonstrance and manly reasoning.
My hope is, that men who denounce now, will at length reason.
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.