I rejoice that she does not stand on the same platform which man now occupies in these respects; but I mourn, also, that he should thus prostitute his higher nature, and vilely cast away his birthright.
Grimké expresses both pride and sorrow regarding the moral choices of men and women.
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What kind of religion did the North prepare them to preach?
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.
I shall never forget my feelings when the subject was first hit upon in the Evangelist.