Angelina Grimké

"But I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright …"

"Article for Angelina Grimké from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition at Wikisource"

"I have been suffering for the last two days on account of Henry’s boy having run away, because he was threatened with a whipping … and yet … I am constantly told that the situation of slaves is very g…"

"The time to assert a right is the time when that right is denied."

"Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights."

"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. The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, wheth…"

"I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers; Are you willing to enslave your children? You start back with horror and indignation at such a question. But why, if slavery is no wrong to those upon whom it …"

"I know you do not make the laws but I also know that you are the wives and mothers, the sisters and daughters of those who do."