I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women. — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth,… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is… — Samuel Gridley Howe Copy Share Image
Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
Strangely enough, the legend of John Brown, who was clearly crazy, helped the abolitionist cause and is thought to have precipitated the… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“the struggle for an abolitionist democracy is aspiring to create the institutions that will truly allow for a democratic society. What” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die.… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“How many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world? It was an abolitionist’s print, not… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads.… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual to become vegan. Veganism, or the eschewing of all… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Whether by the House or by the People, if an Abolitionist be chosen President of the United States, you will have presented… — Jefferson Davis 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
“An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
What does it look like to build a city, state, or nation invested in communities thriving rather than their death and destruction?… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
“This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.” “No it isn’t,” I said. “That book wasn’t even written until… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and… — Marcus Rediker Copy Share Image
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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