Angelina Emily Grimké: “Is this in accordance with ‘the known laws of mind,’ where principle is deeply rooted in the heart?”

Surely you believe that his aim is not shortened that he cannot save.

Instead of being in love with the virtue exhibited by the individual, because it is virtue, he is delighted with the personal convenience he experiences from the exercise of that virtue.

I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.

I think the abolitionists have done, and are doing a great deal of good, by holding slavery up to the public gaze.