12 Quotes by Sarah Moore Grimke

I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust...

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest without the aid of both. Indeed how can she? What adds to moral strength, but a grappling with temptation?

If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.