50 Quotes by Angelina Grimke

The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.

Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing the grossest inconsistencies on the one hand, or running into the most arrant absurdities on the other?

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things ...

We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.

I am a mystery to myself.

Duty is ours and events are God's.

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