It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement. — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery! — John Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from? — Mary Edwards Walker Copy Share Image
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not… — Gamaliel Bailey Copy Share Image
I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall… — Elijah Parish Lovejoy Copy Share Image
Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
As Frederick Douglas, the famous abolitionist, said: "power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will." You need… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would… — Gamaliel Bailey Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton began a New York thank-you tour Friday by calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. No wonder Arkansas never… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown.… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both inperson and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I… — John Brown Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis… — Jeffrey Rosen 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
“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
“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
“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
“The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation and requires veganism as a matter of… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
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