Abolition Quotes · Page 2

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

— Thomas Jefferson

My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

— Joseph Rotblat

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

— James Madison

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

— Mao Zedong

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

— Maya Angelou

Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible.

— Eric Metaxas

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

— Gilles Deleuze

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

— Andrew Jackson

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

— Henry George

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

— Vladimir Lenin

I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the…

— Bertrand Russell

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

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend…

— Peter Medawar

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

— Anonymous

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.

— Willard Libby

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

— Marquis de Lafayette

“What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society…

— Fred Moten and Stefano Harney

Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid…

— Gertrude Mongella

Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and…

— Frederick Douglass

The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can…

— Jonathan Schell

Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her…

— Mary Virginia Terhune

The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that…

— John Coleman

On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And…

— Ban Ki-moon

It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel,…

— Daniel Ellsberg

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not…

— David Cannadine

“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was…

— Andrew P. Napolitano

An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in…

— Matthew Scully

Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome…

— Rodney Stark

“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union…

— Régis de Trobriand

Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism…

— Errico Malatesta

“If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm…

— GaryLFrancione

Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released.

— Clint Smith

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

— David Harvey

Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life

— Frederick Douglass

As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property.

— Ash Sarkar

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

— Angelina Grimke

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear…

— Dennis Kucinich

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say…

— Desmond Tutu