Political Quotes

Angelina Emily Grimké: Why were Luther and Calvin persecuted and excommunicated, Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer burnt?

On the record
Why were Luther and Calvin persecuted and excommunicated, Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer burnt?
Said by
Angelina Emily Grimké

Editor's note · Context

Here, Grimké mentions prominent reformers who faced persecution for their beliefs, underscoring the theme of courage in truth-telling.

Share

More from Angelina Emily Grimké

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

gutenberg.org

If Prophets and Apostles, Martyrs, and Reformers had not been willing to suffer for the truth's sake, where would the world have been now?

gutenberg.org

Thou thinkest I have not been ‘sufficiently informed in regard to the feelings and opinions of Christian females at the North’ on the subject of slavery; for that in fact they hold the same principles with Abolitionists, although they…

gutenberg.org

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.

gutenberg.org