But I had thought the principal motives urged by abolitionists were not these; but that they endeavored to excite men and women to active exertion,--first, to cleanse their own hands of the sin of slavery, and secondly, to save the South, if possible, and the North, at any rate, from the impending judgments of heaven.
Grimké articulates the primary motivations of abolitionists as a call to action against slavery and for moral responsibility.
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The more the subject of slavery is agitated, the better.
Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
I shall never forget my feelings when the subject was first hit upon in the Evangelist.
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.