#me

We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#depressed #disasters #everybody #find #gone

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

— Angelina Grimke

#coming #deemed #employment #honorable #human

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 Grimke

#bonds #brethren #case #denial #despair

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 Grimke

#christian #demoralizing #die #exert #exerted

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#down #turning #upside #upside down #women

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 Grimke

#been #colored #denied #education #feel

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

— Angelina Grimke

#fettered #hundred #more #see #she

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 Grimke

#calls #commands #course #i #law

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time. ↗

— Francis J. Grimke

#only #soul #survive #time #upon

America stands for the land of opportunity. ↗