Angelina Grimke Quotes


I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.


Citations

Grimké, Angelina Emily. Letters to Catharine E. Beecher, in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism. Isaac Knapp, 1838, p. 114.

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Angelina Grimke
Angelina Grimke
  • Born: February 20, 1805
  • Died: October 26, 1879
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician, Abolitionist, Suffragist

Angelina Emily Grimké Weld was an American abolitionist, political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. She and her sister Sarah Moore Grimké are the only white Southern women who became abolitionists. The sisters lived together as adults, while Angelina was the wife of abolitionist leader Theodore Dwight Weld.