Angelina Grimké cytaty

Angelina Emily Grimké – amerykańska abolicjonistka i sufrażystka. Działała wspólnie z siostrą, Sarą Grimké. Bohaterka powieści Czarne skrzydła, Sue Monk Kidd. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. Luty 1805 – 26. Październik 1879
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Angelina Grimké: Cytaty po angielsku

“I have seen it! I have seen it! I know it has horrors that can never be described. I was brought up under its wing. I witnessed for many years its demoralizing influence and its destructiveness to human happiness. I have never seen a happy slave.”

Addressing an abolitionist meeting in Philadelphia, May 14, 1838, as a mob howled outside, throwing bricks and stones into the building, as quoted in [Todras, Ellen H., Angelina Grimké: Voice of Abolition, https://books.google.com/books?id=-S8ZAQAAMAAJ, 1999, Linnet, 978-0-208-02485-5, 3]