I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend… — Peter Medawar 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 don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA]… — Desmond Tutu 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
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her… — Mary Virginia Terhune 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
“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society… — Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Copy Share Image
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Trust was what made everything possible. Trust lent you someone else's eyes, someone else's strong arms or quick brain. Made you bigger… — Vic James Copy Share Image
There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was… — Andrew P. Napolitano 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
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
“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union… — Régis de Trobriand 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
I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities. — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction… — Noah Webster 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
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