I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as…

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other,…

— Samuel Gridley Howe

“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

“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master…

— Jay Grewal

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

— Sojourner Truth

One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' -…

— Quentin Tarantino

Whether by the House or by the People, if an Abolitionist be chosen President of the United States, you will have presented to you…

— Jefferson Davis

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

— Susan B. Anthony

You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even…

— Rose Macaulay

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I…

— Lucy Stone

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

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

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could…

— John Sergeant Wise

If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because…

— Dick Gregory

“These men are all talk. What we need is action—action!”

— John Brown