There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders.

While never the darling of pure free traders, measures to combat dumping, subsidies, and injurious import surges have always been deemed essential by open…

— Robert Lighthizer

Modern free-traders... embrace their ideal with a passion that makes Robespierre seem prudent. They embrace unbridled free trade, even as it helps China become…

— Robert Lighthizer

The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people who were…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and…

— Fanny Kemble

I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years…

— Ernest Gowers

“Certain black women faced the triple hurdle—of being abolitionists in a slave society, of being black among white reformers, and of being women in…

— Howard Zinn

“In a democratic society, a wrongful practice persists only when most people don’t perceive it to be unjust. At first, only a small minority…

— Peter Thiel

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 Brown…

— John Landgraf

Oftentimes, a history book in school will talk about the Underground Railroad as if it's one sentence. But thousands of people decided to run,…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.

— Will Shetterly

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

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

— Susan B. Anthony

There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of…

— Eric Foner

“Doak and other early abolitionists planted a host of Presbyterian churches and “log cabin colleges” that taught a strong antislavery doctrine. They laid the basis…

— Andrew Himes

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have…

— Frederick Douglass