Now, I believe this nation is rotten at the heart, and that nothing but the most tremendous blows with the sledge-hammer of abolition truth, could ever have broken the false rest which we had taken up for ourselves on the very brink of ruin.
Grimké asserts that the nation is fundamentally flawed and requires strong abolitionist truths to awaken it.
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What dost thou mean by saying, her rights are the gifts of honor, rectitude and love?
I think the abolitionists have done, and are doing a great deal of good, by holding slavery up to the public gaze.
The fact is, we need no excuse for not going to the South, so long as the North is as deeply involved in the guilt of slavery as she is, and as blind to her duty.
The more the subject of slavery is agitated, the better.