Charlotte Forten Grimke quotes

Charlotte Forten Grimke quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.”
-- Charlotte Forten Grimke

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“At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None but those who experience it can know what it is - this constant, galling sense of cruel injustice and wrong. I cannot help feeling it very often, - it intrudes upon my happiest moments, and spreads a dark, deep gloom over everything.”
-- Charlotte Forten Grimke

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“hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.”
-- Charlotte Forten Grimke

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