Grace Webb’s Reviews > Women, Race & Class > Status Update

“We cannot push Abolitionism forward with all our might untill we take up the stumbling block out of the road....If we surrender the right to speak in public this year, we must surrender the right to petition next year and the right to write the year after, and so on. What then can woman do for the slave, when she herself is under the feet of man and shamed into silence?” Grimke sisters pg 43