There is every encouragement for you to labor and pray, my friends, because the abolition of slavery as well as its existence, has been the theme of prophecy.
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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And you are now loudly called upon by the cries of the widow and the orphan, to arise and gird yourselves for this great moral conflict, with the whole armour of righteousness upon the right hand and on the left.
You must take it up on Christian ground, and fight against it with Christian weapons, whilst your feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
Slavery must be attacked with the whole power of truth and the sword of the spirit.
It will be a great thing if the subject can be introduced into your legislatures in any way, even by women, and they will be the most likely to introduce it there in the best possible manner, as a matter of morals and religion, not of…
If you could obtain but six signatures to such a petition in only one state, I would say, send up that petition, and be not in the least discouraged by the scoffs and jeers of the heartless, or the resolution of the house to lay it on the…
There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.
Such appeals to your legislatures would be irresistible, for there is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion.
The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.
Is there no Esther among you who will plead for the poor devoted slave?
Are there no Huldahs there who will dare to speak the truth concerning the sins of the people and those judgments, which it requires no prophet's eye to see, must follow if repentance is not speedily sought?
Are there no Miriams, who would rejoice to lead out the captive daughters of the Southern States to liberty and light?