Angelina Grimke Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be ... the school in which human rights are more fully investigated and better understood and taught than in any other.

  Angelina Grimke

  School, Rights, Understanding

• The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

  Angelina Grimke

  White, Silence, Despair

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.116, Penguin

• Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.

  Angelina Grimke

  Men, Rights, Perfect

• One who is a slaveholder at heart never recognizes a human being in a slave.

  Angelina Grimke

  Heart, Slavery, Race Relations

• ...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.

  Angelina Grimke

  Believe, Character, Responsibility

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