Sarah Moore Grimke Quotes

#1. I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#2. By definition, any belief is something that sombody hopes is true; conversely, a disbelief is a hope that something is not true. Neither has anything whatever to do with the real truth, except to obscure it.

William Gilkerson

#3. In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#4. Whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#5. An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust ...

Sarah Moore Grimke

#6. His face was tense, his jaw flexed as he stared at her. She could hardly stand to meet his eyes. They were an ocean of betrayal. They probed her, searching for the smallest sign that she didn't mean it. That spark of hope that never seemed to go out.

Aprilynne Pike

#7. Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest without the aid of both. Indeed how can she? What adds to moral strength, but a grappling with temptation?

Sarah Moore Grimke

#8. If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#9. Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#10. [Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#11. The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#12. People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn't matter whether it is caffeinated or decaffeinated - have a reduction in Type 2 diabetes, or a reduced incidence of Type 2 diabetes, of about fifty percent. The same with Parkinson's, although there it is more related to the caffeine.

Gregory Stock

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

Sarah Moore Grimke

#14. At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#15. [On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#16. You may feed the wolf as you will; he has always a hankering for the woods.

Ivan Turgenev

#17. You're growling, poodle! Animal squealings 1230 Hardly suit the exalted feelings Filling my soul to overflowing. We're used to people ridiculing What they hardly understand, Grumbling at the good and the beautiful - It makes them so uncomfortable! Do dogs now emulate mankind?

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#18. There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested ... I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#19. I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

Eduard Shevardnadze

#20. The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#21. Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.

Jack LaLanne

#22. Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.

Balthazar Getty

#23. 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 the ground which God has designed us to occupy.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#24. The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her.
"Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me.
"The big show is inside my head," I said.

Kurt Vonnegut

#25. Apple stood for something and had a reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

Jonathan Ive

#26. Don't give up on hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope ~Henri - I am number four

Pittacus Lore

#27. There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#28. The only thing that separates the person you are from the person you want to be are the actions you take.

John Bruna

#29. Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997.

Aretha Franklin

#30. I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#31. One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#32. I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

Walt Whitman