The advent of the sisters Grimké upon the anti-slavery stage as public speakers, marked the advent of the idea of women's rights, of their equality with men in the struggle with slavery.
Grimké notes the pivotal moment when the Grimké sisters began advocating for women's rights within the anti-slavery movement.
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Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.
This sounds singular in this land of the free and it is singular, for of no other class of American labor could it be said that its right to migrate from one state to another is actually obstructed by law and would be resisted by force.
Love was in their mouths and love was in their hearts.
It is a gangrene preying upon our vitals--an earthquake rumbling under our feet--a mine accumulating material for a national catastrophe.