And their fight for abolition what did the Grimke sisters realize? -Women lacked full political and social rights, - temperance was the only way to achieve a moral society, - immigrants were being denied as the right to vote by nativists, - free African-Americans, set an example by successfully petitioning the government for suffrage

The Grimke sisters realized that women lacked full political and social rights. They also realized the importance of fighting for women's rights in addition to their fight for abolition.