"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"

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Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.159, Penguin

Angelina Grimke

#Crush Quotes #Men Quotes #Race Quotes

“Jesus [was the] first American”
“There are more important things to focus on in life than how you look.”
“Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.”
“There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.”
“My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.”
“By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.”
“For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.”

Source : Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf
“Pulque - lightning nectar for the Gods.”

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