Women have always fought for the rights of others and for themselves; they have stated several times that everyone should be equal. Equality in America meant everything to women; equality between blacks and whites, Native Americans and whites, women and all of America. “There's a lot of buzz about black men getting their rights, but not a word about black women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see that colored men will be masters of women” (DuPont 12; Lewis). Passages like the previous ruling are just a few of many that express women's feelings towards women's rights and suffrage. However, women wanted changes in rights for all people, but women being women caused a problem in people taking them seriously. In this research paper, I will address three women who were abolitionists and/or activists. Sarah Moore Grimké was born in 1792 into a well-known slave-owning family in Charleston, South Carolina; unlike some of the other children who grew up around slavery, Sarah was disgusted by the sight of how slaves were treated and the idea of ​​slavery. About thirteen years later, Angelina Grimké was born and felt the same way her sister did about slavery. In the 1830s the two sisters began to speak publicly about abolitionism; in the form of speeches, books and letters. The elder Grimké sister published a book entitled Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States, in which she addresses a clergy as a Southern woman speaking to other Southerners about the abolition of slavery; because it was against what God would have wanted. “Slavery stripped him of kingship, collared and chained him, and trampled the image of God in the dust” (Grimké 2); ......middle of paper......Africans. Sl: Ayer, 1968. Print.DuPont, Kathryn. The encyclopedia of women's history in America. New York: Facts on File, 1996. Print.Grimké, Sarah Moore. An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. New York: Cornell University Library, 1836. Print.Grimké, Sarah Moore, and Mary Parker. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, addressed to Mary S. Parker. New York: B. Franklin, 1970. Print.Lauter, Paul. Heath's Anthology of American Literature. 6th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co., 2009. Print.Shmoop Editorial Team. “The Truth of the Sojourn in the Abolitionists.” Shmoop.com. Shmoop University, Inc., November 11, 2008. Web. March 5, 2012. .Whittier, John Greenleaf. Letters of Lydia Maria Child with biographical introduction. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883. Print.