The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel,… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution… — Henry L. Benning Copy Share Image
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises:… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike. — Willard Libby Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many… — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice. Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders. "Perhaps he writes free verse,"… — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs). — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things.… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image