Angelina Grimke Quotes

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

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.

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

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.

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

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.

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

I am a mystery to myself.