Angelina Grimké

“If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course.”

“It is a woman's right to have a voice in the formation of the laws and policies by which she is to be governed.”

“Whatsoever is morally right for a man to do, is morally right for a woman to do.”

“We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.”

“I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.”

“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.”

“I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female.”

“The time to assert a right is the time when that right is denied.”

“I know you do not make the laws, but I also know that you are the wives and mothers, the sisters and daughters of those who do; and if you really suppose you can do nothing to overthrow slavery, you are greatly mistaken.”

“So long as we shrink from duty, we shall never be happy.”

“Abolitionists never sought place or power. All they asked was freedom; all they sought was justice.”

“Slavery is a sin against God and a crime against man.”