And it is a perfect mystery to me how men and women can conscientiously persevere in upholding a society, which the very objects of its professed benevolence have repeatedly, solemnly, constantly and universally condemned.
Grimké questions how individuals can support a society condemned by those it claims to help.
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Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
I think the abolitionists have done, and are doing a great deal of good, by holding slavery up to the public gaze.
Thy remarks on the subject of prejudice, show but too plainly how strongly thy own mind is imbued with it, and how little thy colonization principles have done to exterminate this feeling from thy own bosom.
The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance.