If you could obtain but six signatures to such a petition in only one state, I would say, send up that petition, and be not in the least discouraged by the scoffs and jeers of the heartless, or the resolution of the house to lay it on the table.
Grimké encourages women to persist in their petitions for justice despite potential ridicule.
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