Quote on Organizations and Individuals

"The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the individual; their tendency is to sink the individual in the mass, to sacrifice his rights, and to immolate him on the altar of some fancied good."

Attribution:
Angelina Grimké (1805–1879), U.S. abolitionist and feminist. As quoted in The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, ch. 18, by Gerda Lerner (1967).

In a letter to the 1852 Woman’s Rights Convention, held in Syracuse, New York. The major topic of the convention was to be the future organizational structure of the women’s rights movement, which was only a few years old.