The ground upon which you [abolitionists] stand is holy ground; never—never surrender it. If you surrender it, the hope of the slave is extinguished, and the chains of his servitude will be strengthened a hundred fold … But remember you must be willing to suffer the loss of all things – willing to be the scorn and reproach of professor and profane. You must obey our great master’s injunction: “Fear not them that kill the body, and after that, have nothing more that they can do.”

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The ground upon which you [abolitionists] stand is holy ground; never—never surrender it. If you surrender it, the hope of the slave is extinguished, and the chains of his servitude will be strengthened a hundred fold … But remember you must be willing to suffer the loss of all things – willing to be the scorn and reproach of professor and profane. You must obey our great master’s injunction: “Fear not them that kill the body, and after that, have nothing more that they can do.”" in the context of "In a letter to Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, August 30, 1835. published in The Liberator, September 19, 1835., as quoted in Ceplair, Larry (1989), The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina GrimkŽ: Selected Writings, 1835-1839, page: 25-6, publisher: Columbia University Press, ISBN: 978-0-231-06801-7" to mean that wisdom is timeless.