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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. – Angelina Grimke

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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored mans wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education. – Angelina Grimke

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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

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There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey. – William Edward Forster

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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. – Malcolm X

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It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. – Blaise Pascal

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It is much safer to obey, than to govern. – Thomas Kempis

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