The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
Grimké critiques the doctrine of blind obedience to authority, advocating for moral agency.
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The more the subject of slavery is agitated, the better.
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.
The operation of the laws tends to deprive slaves of religious instruction and consolation.