Carolina QuotesBut 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.
Sarah Grimké
Carolinian
Source
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838)
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- Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman
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- 1838
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I mention these women only to prove that intellect is not sexed; that strength of mind is not sexed; and that our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, the sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependant solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals.
Men and women were CREATED EQUAL ; they are both moral and accountable beings, and whatever is right for man to do, is right for woman.
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