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.
Category Archive: Angelina Grimke
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man’s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
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, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
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.
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.