The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; … - Angelina Grimke

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Don't do what's right to get something. Do the right thing because it's the right thing.

Angelina Grimke

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.

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

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

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I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

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

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The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the anti-slavery cause to be. . . the school in which human rights are more fully investigated and better understood and taught than in any other.

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