I trust the cause of human rights is onward--weekly, I receive two copies of the Emancipator, which I send out as battering rams, to beat down the citadel of oppression.’ In a letter to James G.
Grimké expresses her commitment to the cause of human rights and the abolition of slavery, using the metaphor of sending out publications as weapons against oppression.
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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 dost thou mean by saying, her rights are the gifts of honor, rectitude and love?
I have become a convert to political, and I trust, also, to Christian Freedom.
No station or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.