“Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections..” — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind. — Richard Carlile Copy Share Image
“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. — George Clymer Copy Share Image
Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery. — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war. — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA]… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong. — Henry George Copy Share Image
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The things that I want to see happen get no play in mainstream American politics. My primary interests are the legalization of… — Grace Dunham Copy Share Image
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition… — William Silverman Copy Share Image
The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet.… — Solomon Northrup Copy Share Image
The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home… — William Topaz McGonagall Copy Share Image
It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism,… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“Despite my deep unease about animal advocates working for things we don't want and asking for changes we don't believe in, I… — Sarahjane Blum Copy Share Image
“I dwell mostly upon the religious aspects, because I believe it is the religious people who are to be relied upon in… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,”… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Though the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image