 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1970 - 946 pages
...more than 100 years ago. I nsk no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks and permit us to stand upright on the ground on which God has designed us to occupy. Miss GOLDMAN*. These hearings are being held at... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 - Women - 1971 - 750 pages
...society in which we respond to Sarah Griinke, who stated in 1S38: "I ask no favors for my sex. All I ask our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God designed us to occupy." STATEMENT OF HON. MARGARET M. HECKLER, A REPRESKNTATIVE... | |
 | William H. Chafe Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Duke University - Equality - 1977 - 226 pages
...of their weakness so they would turn to men for protection. But, Sarah Grimke had another response: "All I ask of our brethren is that they will take...from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy." When their fellow male abolitionists urged that the... | |
 | Gerda Lerner - African American women - 1981 - 254 pages
...American society—female suffrage. 3 The Feminists: A Second Look I ask no favors for my sex. All I ask our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God designed us to occupy. SARAH GRIMKE, 1838 Women are the best helpers of one another.... | |
 | Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion Arvind Sharma - Religion - 1987 - 326 pages
...authentic potential. I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of my brethren is that they will take their feet from off...permit us to stand upright on that ground which God has designed us to occupy.48 In 1848 these early women's rights leaders met in Seneca Falls, New York,... | |
 | William Carl Placher - Religion - 1988 - 230 pages
...which is arrogated by man. Even admitting that Eve was the greater sinner, it seems to me man might be satisfied with the dominion he has claimed and exercised...upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy. From Sarah M. Grimke, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (New York: Burt... | |
 | Mary E. Head, Janet A. Galligan - Religion - 1996 - 32 pages
...deeply committed Christian and one of the pioneers of the women's movement in the early 1800's put it: "I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim...upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy" (Gurko, Miriam, The Ladies of Seneca Falls, New York: Schocken Books, 1974, p. 41). Discussion Questions... | |
 | Sara M. Evans, Barbara J. Nelson, Barbara N. Nelson - Business & Economics - 1991 - 242 pages
...surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask our brethren is that they will take their heels from our necks and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy."21 In the early nineteenth century feminists bypassed the inequalities and economic dependence... | |
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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. 
