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Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. — Charlotte Forten Grimke

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. — Angelina Grimke

[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern. — Sarah Moore Grimke

We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be. — Angelina Grimke

it matters not what we have been but this an always this: what we shall be. — Angelina Weld Grimke

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time. — Francis J. Grimke

I am a mystery to myself. — Angelina Grimke

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality. — Sarah Moore Grimke

Nina was one wing, I was another
Sarah Grimke — Sue Monk Kidd

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust ... — Sarah Moore Grimke

Whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. — Sarah Moore Grimke

I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize. — Sarah Moore Grimke

I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them. — Sarah Moore Grimke

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook. — Francis J. Grimke

I recognize no rights but human rights
I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights ... — Angelina Grimke

Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered? — Angelina Grimke

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline. — Sarah Moore Grimke

One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave. — Angelina Grimke

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours. — Angelina Grimke

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated. — Angelina Grimke

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things ... — Angelina Grimke

I wondered how it was possible I had found words out there in the world but could lose them in the house where I was born
Sarah Grimke — Sue Monk Kidd

Unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, it is doomed, it is bound to go down. — Francis James Grimke

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down. — Francis J. Grimke

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly. — Angelina Grimke

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights. — Angelina Grimke

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. — Sarah Moore Grimke

So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth. — Angelina Grimke

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. — Angelina Grimke

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings. — Sarah Moore Grimke

Duty is ours and events are God's. — Angelina Grimke

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. — Sarah Grimke

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free. — Angelina Grimke