I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and…

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of…

— Angela Davis

“In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln convinced Congress to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery throughout the nation. 4)”

— Mary Pope Osborne

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery other than in prisons - but it was a lie that you regained your freedom…

— Susan Burton

“The men and women of England who abolished slavery, created the educational system, or gave women the vote were not acting on the hypotheses…

— Geoffrey Vickers

“The prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Americans have found it particularly difficult to come to terms with our “slave origins,” perhaps because the national history of the United States makes…

— Gavin Wright

“Convicts had no meaningful legal rights at this time and no effective redress. They were understood, quite literally, to be slaves of the state.…

— Michelle Alexander

All these cries of having "abolished slavery," of having "saved the country," of having "preserved the union," of establishing a "government of consent," and…

— Lysander Spooner

“Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1980, though its own government admitted that the practice continued nevertheless.”

— Thomas Sowell

But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between…

— Sally Kohn

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride…

— Khaled Hosseini

Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we…

— Martin Luther

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this…

— Jesse Ventura

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between…

— Nawal El Saadawi