I consider it pre-eminently aggressive; it waits not to be assaulted, but moves on in all the majesty of Truth to attack the strong holds of the kingdom of darkness, carries the war into the enemy’s camp, and throws its fiery darts into the midst of its embattled hosts.
Grimké describes the proactive and combative nature of truth in the struggle against oppression.
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Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.
My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.
So far from it, that I have invariably heard those who understood the principles of the Anti-Slavery Society best, deny that it was a duty to go to the South, not because they would be killed, but because the North was guilty, and…
The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.