Sarah Grimke Quotes on Justice
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I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.
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I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.
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The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.