Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue…

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

There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far…

— Margaret E. Knight

Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect…

— Gilbert Simondon

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and…

— Ralph Nader

Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done…

— G. Edward Griffin

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source…

— Benjamin Franklin

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did…

— G. Edward Griffin

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

— George Washington

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed…

— Opal Tometi

I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century…

— Mark Steyn