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They have a MORAL LEVER BY WHICH THEY CAN MOVE A WORLD OF OPINION.
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Angelina Emily Grimké
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gutenberg.orgAngelina Emily Grimké: “They have a MORAL LEVER BY WHICH THEY CAN MOVE A WORLD OF OPINION.”
Editor's note · Context
Grimké asserts that abolitionists possess a powerful moral influence capable of swaying public opinion.
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Consequences, my friends, belong no more to you, than they did to these apostles.
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What kind of religion did northern men come down and preach to us?
The women of the South can overthrow this horrible system of oppression and cruelty, licentiousness and wrong.