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Women as well as men were to be living stones in the temple of grace, and therefore their heads were consecrated by the descent of the Holy Ghost as well as those of men.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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Grimké asserts that women are equally important in the spiritual community as men.
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O! the deep, DEEP injury which such unfaithful ministers have inflicted on the South!
The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.
Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.