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Sarah Grimke

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I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.
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Letter 2 (July 17, 1837)

 
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