5 Sarah Grimke Quotes on Rights

Sarah Grimke quotes on rights

5. 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.

6. 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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13. I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.

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16. I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.

22. Thus far woman has struggled through life with bandaged eyes, accepting the dogma of her weakness and inability to take care of herself not only physically but intellectually. She has held out a trembling hand and received gratefully the proffered aid. She has foregone her right to study, to know the laws and purposes of government to which she is subject. But there is now awakened in her a consciousness that she is defrauded of her legitimate Rights and that she never can fulfill her mission until she is placed in that position to which she feels herself called by the divinity within. Hitherto she has surrendered her person and her individuality to man, but she can no longer do this and not feel that she is outraging her nature and her God.