Angelina Emily Grimke Weld Quotes

• Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man’s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• 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.

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• 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.

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

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

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• I am a mystery to myself.

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

• Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?

  Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

Angelina Emily Grimke Weld (13)

Birth:	20th February, 1805
Death:	26th October, 1879
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Abolitionist, Politician, Suffragist

About

Angelina Emily Grimké Weld was an American political activist, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. The time of her greatest fame was between 1836, when a letter she sent to William Lloyd Garrison was published in his anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, and May 1838, when she gave a courageous and brilliant speech to abolitionists gathered in Philadelphia, with a hostile crowd throwing stones and shouting outside the hall. The essays and speeches she produced in that two-year period were incisive arguments to end slavery and to advance women's rights. Grimké married Theodore Weld, a prominent abolitionist, in May 1838. They lived in New Jersey, with her sister Sarah Grimke, and raised three children, supporting themselves by running two schools, the later located in the Raritan Bay Union utopian community. After the Civil War ended, the Grimke-Weld household moved to Hyde Park, Massachusetts, where they spent their last years. Angelina and Sarah were active in the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association in the 1870s.

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