Angelina Emily Grimké: “There is in this country a monstrous inequality of law and right.”

What can I say more, my friends, to induce you to set your hands, and heads, and hearts, to this great work of justice and mercy.

I have attempted to vindicate the Abolitionists, to prove the entire safety of immediate Emancipation, and to plead the cause of the poor and oppressed.

I can prove the safety of immediate Emancipation by history.

Perhaps you have feared the consequences of immediate Emancipation, and been frightened by all those dreadful prophecies of rebellion, bloodshed and murder, which have been uttered.