If they had said, we cannot speak the truth, we cannot do what we believe is right, because the laws of our country or public opinion are against us, where would our holy religion have been now?
Grimké reflects on the consequences of silence in the face of injustice, urging action despite opposition.
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A slaveholding religion--and multitudes of them became slaveholders.
I have become a convert to political, and I trust, also, to Christian Freedom.
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.
So far from thinking slavery a sin, or that I had no right to own the slaves inherited from my father, I thought no one could venture to dispute that right, any more than he could my right to his land or his stock.