The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have fought the Anti-Slavery cause to be the high school of morals in our land —the school in which human rights are more fully investigated, and better understood and taught, than in any other.... 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. These rights may be wrested from the slave, but they cannot be alienated... Now if rights are founded in the nature of our moral being, then the mere circumstances of sex does not give to man higher rights and responsibilities, than to women.... To suppose that it does, would be to break up utterly the relations, of the two natures ... exalting the animal nature into a monarch, and humbling the moral into a slave.
Use the excerpt to answer the question.
How does Grimke invoke founding principles to defend the women's rights movement?
(1 point)
• Natural liberties are not limited by sex.
• All citizens have the ability to petition government.
O Free women should have more freedom than enslaved
persons.
Popular sovereignty means that all citizens have an equal part in government.