Whether the South will be saved by Anti-Slavery efforts, is not a question for us to settle--and in some of our hearts, the hope of its salvation has utterly gone out.
Angelina Emily Grimké
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Angelina Emily Grimké Weld was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. At one point she was the best known, or "most notorious," woman in the country. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké were considered the only notable examples of white Southern women abolitionists. The sisters lived together as adults, while Angelina was the wife of abolitionist leader Theodore Dwight Weld.
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All nations have been punished for oppression, and why should ours escape?
Our light, and high professions, and the age in which we live, convict us not only of enormous oppression, but of the vilest hypocrisy.
The result of our labors is hidden from our eyes; whether the preaching of Anti-Slavery truth is to be a savor of life unto life, or of death unto death to this nation, we know not; and we have no more to do with it, than had the Apostle…
If American Slavery goes down in blood, it will but verify the declarations of those who uphold it.
Thou hast drawn a frightful picture of the final issue of Anti-Slavery efforts, as thou art pleased to call it; but none of these things move me, for with just as much truth mayest thou point to the land of Egypt, blackened by God’s…
He had committed the crime of murder, and fled because the monarch ‘sought to slay him.’ This exiled outlaw is the instrument chosen by God to vindicate the cause of his oppressed people.
Moses was in the sight of Pharaoh as much an object of scorn, as Garrison now is to the tyrants of America.
Some seem to think, that great moral enterprises can be made honorable only by Doctors of Divinity, and Presidents of Colleges, engaging in them: when all powerful Truth cannot be dignified by any man, but it dignifies and ennobles all who…
It lifts the beggar from the dunghill, and sets him among princes.
Because all but David were impenitent sinners, and rejected with scorn all ‘interference to modify their conduct or characters.’ Reformers are rarely estimated in the age in which they live, whether they be called prophets or apostles, or…
The great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.