The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an…

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is…

— Elbert Guillory

“…in recent history the Democrat Party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people. Somehow it’s…

— Elbert Guillory

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental…

— Marcus Rediker

Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists…

— Paul Hawken

A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence.

— Eleftherios Venizelos

I chose the Republican Party because of the principles the party was founded on. This was the party of freedom. This was the party…

— Ryan Frazier

I think it's important to understand the history of the Republican Party. It was founded in 1854 because of the moral collapse of the…

— Steve Schmidt

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Most striking, however, was the position taken in the 1840s by William Lloyd Garrison and his wing of the abolitionist movement. The Garrisonians had…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

“Pundits and politicians have rightly questioned whether conservatism can successfully appeal to secular Americans. It is not a certainty, however, that conservatism will remain…

— George Hawley

“Let us return to Benjamin Rush, who foresaw the revolutionary implications of Benjamin [Lay]'s philosophy. Writing after the abolitionist movement had burst into existence…

— The Fearless Benjamin Lay Marcus Rediker

The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was.

— H. W. Brands

If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There…

— Kevin Drum

Trump's enduring appeal is a resource to be harnessed by the Republican Party, not a burden to be jettisoned.

— Miranda Devine