Angelina Grimke
Angelina Grimke
Angelina Emily Grimké Weldwas an American political activist, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. While she was raised a Southerner, she spent her entire adult life living in the North. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth20 February 1805
CityCharleston, SC
CountryUnited States of America
Angelina Grimke quotes about
I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
I recognize no rights but human rights.
Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked in public weal--no liabilities in common peril--no partnership in a nation's guilt and shame?
So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.
It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.
We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.