No doubt the Jews thought the prophets and apostles in their day, just as harsh and uncharitable as slaveholders now, think Abolitionists; if they did not, why did they beat, and stone, and kill them?
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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No man will now accuse the prophets and apostles of abuse, but what have Abolitionists done more than they?
Did Paul abuse the Roman Governor when he reasoned before him of righteousness, temperance, and judgment, so as to send conviction home to his guilty heart, and cause him to tremble in view of the crimes he was living in?
Did the prophet Isaiah abuse the Jews when he addressed to them the cutting reproofs contained in the first chapter of his prophecies and ended by telling them, they would be ashamed of the oaks they had desired, and confounded for the…
This will be striking the dagger into the very heart of the monster, and once 'tis done, he must soon expire.
Like the unjust judge, Congress must redress the wrongs of the widow, lest by the continual coming up of petitions, it be wearied.
They understand the work of Reform too well to be driven back by the furious waves of opposition, which are only foaming out their own shame.
You need not be surprised, then, at all, at what is said against Abolitionists by the North, for they are wielding a two-edged sword, which even here, cuts through the cords of caste, on the one side, and the bonds of interest on the other.
Prejudice against color, is the most powerful enemy we have to fight with at the North.
Great numbers cannot bear the idea of equality, and fearing lest, if they had the same advantages we enjoy, they would become as intelligent, as moral, as religious, and as respectable and wealthy, they are determined to keep them as low…
The same prejudice exists here against our colored brethren that existed against the Gentiles in Judea.
Now I would ask you, is it right, is it generous, to refuse the colored people in this country the advantages of education and the privilege, or rather the right, to follow honest trades and callings merely because they are colored?