“Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.” NeedsSensibleProvoking Author:Charlotte Forten Grimke
“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.” KnowsFeelsMomentsHelpingFeelingsDarkImpossibleRacismConstantInjusticeSpreadOppressionBrighterGloomBrighter Days Author:Charlotte Forten Grimke
“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.” FeelsHardSeemsBearsRacismHatredPrejudiceForgivingOppressionInjuryOppressorsHard To Forgive Author:Charlotte Forten Grimke
