Some seem to think, that great moral enterprises can be made honorable only by Doctors of Divinity, and Presidents of Colleges, engaging in them: when all powerful Truth cannot be dignified by any man, but it dignifies and ennobles all who embrace it.
Grimké argues that moral truth is not defined by the status of its advocates but elevates all who embrace it.
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If Prophets and Apostles, Martyrs, and Reformers had not been willing to suffer for the truth's sake, where would the world have been now?
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 great fundamental principle of Abolitionists is, that man cannot rightfully hold his fellow man as property.
Send us facts--send us kind remonstrance and manly reasoning.