Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.
Grimké believes that duties arise from life’s diverse relationships rather than from gender differences.
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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.
O! the deep, DEEP injury which such unfaithful ministers have inflicted on the South!
The fact is, the South is enraged, because we have exposed her horrible hypocrisy to the world.