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They have a MORAL LEVER BY WHICH THEY CAN MOVE A WORLD OF OPINION.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “They have a MORAL LEVER BY WHICH THEY CAN MOVE A WORLD OF OPINION.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké asserts that abolitionists possess a powerful moral influence capable of swaying public opinion.
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They were occasioned not by Emancipation, but by the base attempt to fasten the chains of slavery on the limbs of liberated slaves.
He is moving the British Churches to send out to the churches of America the most solemn appeals, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting them with all long suffering and patience to abandon the sin of slavery immediately.
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.