Let us, then, take heed lest we be found fighting against God while standing idle in the market place, or endeavoring to keep other laborers out of the field now already white to the harvest.
Grimké warns against complacency in the face of moral duty, urging active participation in the fight for justice.
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O! the deep, DEEP injury which such unfaithful ministers have inflicted on the South!
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.
No station or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.
Now the Bible is my ultimate appeal in all matters of faith and practice, and it is to this test I am anxious to bring the subject at issue between us.