For myself, I had rather rob any bank to an indefinite amount than kidnap a fellow-being, or hold him in bondage; the sin would be less injurious to society, and less sinful in the sight of God.
Grimké argues that robbing a bank is less sinful than enslaving a person, highlighting his moral stance against slavery.
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It is true examples of disinterested benevolence and individual sacrifices are numerous, particularly in the Southern States; but no systematic, vigorous, and successful measures have been made to overthrow this fabric of oppression.
Is it any wonder that crime emerges out of such cruel and unequal conditions?
Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.
And in this moral mud there bred apace bestiality and cruelty, superstition and sensuality, tyranny and fear--the black brood of man's inhumanity to man.