Angelina Grimke
Angelina Grimke
Angelina Emily Grimké Weldwas an American political activist, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. While she was raised a Southerner, she spent her entire adult life living in the North. The time of her greatest fame was between 1836, when a letter she sent to William Lloyd Garrison was published in his anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, and May 1838, when she gave a courageous and brilliant speech to abolitionists gathered in Philadelphia, with a hostile...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth20 February 1805
CityCharleston, SC
CountryUnited States of America
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?
Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?
We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
I am a mystery to myself.
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.
The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.
One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.
What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation
So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.