World Day of Social Justice
“Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have essentially the same rights…
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..”
Angelina Grimké (1805 – 1879), abolitionist and women’s rights activist, born on this day

