Speak then to your relatives, your friends, your acquaintances on the subject of slavery; be not afraid if you are conscientiously convinced it is sinful, to say so openly, but calmly, and to let your sentiments be known.
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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It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press, that truth is principally propagated.
Judge for yourselves whether he sanctioned such a system of oppression and crime.
Read the Bible then, it contains the words of Jesus, and they are spirit and life.
Even the enemies of Abolitionists, acknowledge that their doctrines are drawn from it.
The Bible then is the book I want you to read in the spirit of inquiry, and the spirit of prayer.
Search the Scriptures daily, whether the things I have told you are true.
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; it is only then we can "pray with the understanding and the spirit also.
To this I reply, I know you do not make the laws, but I also know that you are the wives and mothers, the sisters and daughters of those who do; and if you really suppose you can do nothing to overthrow slavery, you are greatly mistaken.
Seventh, that slavery is contrary to the example and precepts of our holy and merciful Redeemer, and of his apostles.
For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." Oh! then that the Christians of the south would ponder these things in their hearts, and awake to the…
It is then the Christians and the honorable men and women of the South, who are the main pillars of this grand temple built to Mammon and to Moloch.