Sarah Grimke Quotes on Freedom
Sarah Moore Grimke was an American abolitionist, philosopher, and one of the founding figures of nineteenth-century American feminist thought, the elder sister of Angelina Grimke and a Quaker convert from a slaveholding South Carolina family. This page collects quotes attributed to Sarah Grimke on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“I ask no favor for my sex; all I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.”
Letter 2 (July 17, 1837). -
Attributed to Sarah Grimke:
“Whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.”
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Attributed to Sarah Grimke:
“The denial of education to women is the secret of all the other denials they have suffered.”
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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.”
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman(1837) | Letter 8. -
“The “cause” was two-fold: abolition of slavery and establishment of women’s rights, especially suffrage. Some abolitionists and feminists thought it essential to win the support of clergymen.”
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman(1837)