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 GrimkeHuman beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men havethe same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated: his title to himself is as perfect now, as is that of Lyman Beecher: it is stamped on his moral being, and is, like it, imperishable.
Angelina GrimkeMeasure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral beingโฆ and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights โ I know nothing of menโs rights and womenโs rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.
Angelina Grimke