Angelina Emily Grimké: “If all this sinful foolery is to be withdrawn from our sex, with all…”

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If all this sinful foolery is to be withdrawn from our sex, with all my heart I say, the sooner the better.

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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké expresses a strong desire for the end of superficial behaviors that she believes harm women's dignity.

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What kind of religion did the North prepare them to preach?

Then the South wondered we did not interfere with slavery--and now she says we have no right to interfere.

Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.

The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.

Angelina Emily Grimké: “If all this sinful foolery is to be withdrawn from our sex, with all my heart I say, the sooner the better.”