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As a nation, we have too long educated the mind, and left the heart a moral waste.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “As a nation, we have too long educated the mind, and left the heart a moral waste.”
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Grimké critiques the nation's focus on intellectual education at the expense of moral development.
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So far from thinking slavery a sin, or that I had no right to own the slaves inherited from my father, I thought no one could venture to dispute that right, any more than he could my right to his land or his stock.
What more do we need to show us the bloody hands and iron heart of Slavery?
The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance.
Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.