Angelina Grimke

Activist

1805-02-21 – 1879-10-26

Angelina Grimke was an American abolitionist and women's rights advocate.

Books by Angelina Grimke

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I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
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We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
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