Charlotte Forten Grimke Professions : Poet Born : August 17, 1837 Died : July 23, 1914 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Charlotte Forten Grimke hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice. Charlotte Forten Grimke forgiving hatred racism At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None but those who experience it can know what it is - this constant, galling sense of cruel injustice and wrong. I cannot help feeling it very often, - it intrudes upon my happiest moments, and spreads a dark, deep gloom over everything. Charlotte Forten Grimke racism dark feelings Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not. Charlotte Forten Grimke provoking sensible needs Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors