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Thou sayest, ‘this tended to irritate the whites, and to increase their prejudices against the blacks.’ The truth always irritates the proud, impenitent sinner.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké asserts that the truth often provokes anger in those who are proud and unrepentant.
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