We invite people working for peace to span generations and national boundaries, and gather together to communicate. Let us firmly join hands… — Iccho Itoh Copy Share Image
Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs). — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“A year before he died, Charles Sumner explained his lifelong quest to a friend: “My hope has been to help mankind, and… — Stephen Puleo Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice. Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders. "Perhaps he writes free verse,"… — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
“Abolition is not some disstant future but something we create in every moment when we say no to the traps of empire… — Eric A. Stanley Copy Share Image
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution… — Henry L. Benning Copy Share Image
“Sensing an abandonment of Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass wondered what good abolition had been for the black man if “having been freed from… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you, but now… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The atomic bomb survivors... cannot wait another 50 years. Their highest hope is to see the abolition of nuclear weapons within their… — Iccho Itoh Copy Share Image
Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a… — R.M. Ballantyne Copy Share Image
“It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
