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If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

Source: Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, in Anti-Slavery Examiner, Sep 1836; repr. in The Oven Birds: American Women on Womanhood 1820-1920, ed. Gail Parker, 1972.
-- Angelina Grimke, (Feb 20 1805-1879), US abolitionist, women's rights advocate; She, with her sister Sarah, wrote numerous published papers which championed abolition and women's rights.

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