Angelina Emily Grimké: “What dost thou mean by saying, her rights are the gifts of honor…”

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What dost thou mean by saying, her rights are the gifts of honor, rectitude and love?

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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké questions the validity of the belief that women's rights are merely gifts from others.

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The fact is, the South is enraged, because we have exposed her horrible hypocrisy to the world.

Who labored assiduously to keep the sufferings of the slave continually before the British public?

Send us facts--send us kind remonstrance and manly reasoning.

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

Angelina Emily Grimké: “What dost thou mean by saying, her rights are the gifts of honor, rectitude and love?”