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Angelina Emily Grimké: Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.

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Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké asserts that individuals are not responsible for the consequences of their moral actions, similar to the apostles.

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