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Сара Мур Гримке — американская аболиционистка, писательница и суфражистка.

✵ 26. Ноябрь 1792 – 23. Декабрь 1873
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“I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.”

Letter 3 (July 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)

“There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.”

Letter 9 (August 25, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)

“I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognise.”

Letter 15 (October 20, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)

“I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.”

Opposing unreciprocated acts of chivalry and deference toward women.
Letter 15 (October 20, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)

“At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline. Yet I have sometimes tasted exquisite joy and have found solace for many a woe in the innocence and earnest love of Theodore's children. But for this my life would have little to record of mundane pleasures.”

Letter to Harriot Hunt (1853), as quoted in The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's [sic] Rights and Abolition, p. 241, by Gerda Lerner. Editorial Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0195106032.

“I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by bribery. They will not need persuasion or bribery, if their hearts are with us; if they are not, we are better without them. It is idle to suppose that the kingdom of heaven cannot come on earth, without their cooperation.”

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.
Letter 15 (October 20, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)