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Angelina Emily Grimké: Now I would ask you, is it right, is it generous, to refuse the colored people in this country the advantages of…

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Now I would ask you, is it right, is it generous, to refuse the colored people in this country the advantages of education and the privilege, or rather the right, to follow honest trades and callings merely because they are colored?
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké questions the morality of denying education and opportunities to people based on their race.

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