Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen…

Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No…

— Russell Baker

Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political…

— Rudolf Rocker

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

— Peter Marshall

“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh…

— William Lloyd Garrison

It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling…

— Margaret Thatcher

We invite people working for peace to span generations and national boundaries, and gather together to communicate. Let us firmly join hands and foster…

— Iccho Itoh

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

— Albert Einstein

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Ban Ki-moon

Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and…

— Peter Drucker

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

— Fred Moten and Stefano Harney

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for…

— George Washington

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

— Ash Sarkar

Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the…

— Eric Foner

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied…

— Roger Nash Baldwin