Quote by Angelina Grimke
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored mans wrong,

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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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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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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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. – Lech Walesa

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If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity. – Italian Proverb

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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache. – James Russell Lowell

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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. – Joseph Addison

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I think the one thing this picture shows thats new is the psychological disproportion of the kids demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. – James Dean

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