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Theirs was a moral warfare, the grappling of truth with error, of the power of love with the inhumanities of the nation.
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Archibald Henry Grimké
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gutenberg.orgArchibald Henry Grimké: “Theirs was a moral warfare, the grappling of truth with error, of the power of love with the inhumanities of the nation.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké characterizes the struggle against slavery as a moral battle between truth and error, emphasizing its ethical dimensions.
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Love was in their mouths and love was in their hearts.
Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?
Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.
It would reappear as Negro serfdom unless placed in the way of utter extinction.