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Angelina Emily Grimké: I have found the Anti-Slavery cause to be the high school of morals in our land--the school in which human rights are…

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I have found the Anti-Slavery cause to be the high school of morals in our land--the school in which human rights are more fully investigated, and better understood and taught, than in any other.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké describes the Anti-Slavery movement as a crucial moral education for society.

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