If not, then in holding others as slaves, I am doing what I would not wish to be done to me or any relative I have; and thus have I broken this golden rule which was given me to walk by.
Grimké reflects on the implications of the Golden Rule, emphasizing the moral failure of slaveholding.
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My hope is, that men who denounce now, will at length reason.
I was among those who thought (and honestly too) that there was no more moral guilt attached to the holding our fellow beings in bondage, regarding them as property, than to the holding of a mule or an ox.
The whole power of the laws is exerted to keep slaves in a state of the lowest ignorance.
What more do we need to show us the bloody hands and iron heart of Slavery?