Angelina Grimke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Education #Heart #Mind
Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Art #Women #Rights
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Children #Employment #Occupation
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.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Law #Suffering #Sin
I recognize no rights but human rights.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Rights #Human Rights #Humans
Duty is ours and events are God's.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Events #Duty
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 the same rights.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Men #Rights #Moral
It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Tongue #Truth Is #Pens
So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Earth #Napkins #Talent
We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.
-- Angelina Grimke

#What Matters #Matter
I am a mystery to myself.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Mystery
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
-- Angelina Grimke

#World #Upside Down #Abolition
I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Rights #Want
Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral beingâ€¦ and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights â€“ I know nothing of menâ€™s rights and womenâ€™s rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Jesus #Men #Rights
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.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Men #Peculiar #Inferiority
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
-- Angelina Grimke

#Crush #Men #Race
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
-- Angelina Grimke

#Christian #Flames #Faithful
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
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.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Reading #Order #Important
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.
-- Angelina Grimke

#Heart #Men #Moral

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