All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition.… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
De-programming the perfunctory ways of meat, dairy, egg and honey-eaters is possible. Conservatively speaking, my lectures have converted hundreds of thousands of… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society… — Peter Kropotkin 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
“An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
“Gosnell turned almost no one away from the Women’s Medical Society clinic. This is not meant as a compliment. Repentant Gosnell employee… — Ann McElhinney Copy Share Image
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
With abolition, it's necessary to destroy systems of oppression. But it's equally necessary to put at the forefront our conversations about creation.… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal… — Kerry Thornley Copy Share Image
Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“It has come as a great revelation to me,” I wrote her, “that abolition is different from the desire for racial equality.… — Sue Monk Kidd 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
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“My great worry is the problem of poverty…Instead of prisons, I would have schools, art and vocational academies, free trade, free love,… — Luisa Capetillo 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
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. . . Is everything… — Solomon Northrup Copy Share Image
Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in… — Gilbert Simondon Copy Share Image
What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream . . . But… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private property but only its annihilation, not the smoothing over of class antagonisms… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association,… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all… — Kofi Annan 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
Those who advocate either slavery or income taxation should be ashamed of themselves. Genuine freedom entails the abolition, not the reform, of… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
![“So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.” quote by William Wilberforce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3c6/william-wilberforce-8564_abolition_so-enormous-so-dreadful-so-irremediable_2916519.jpg)
![“The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of…” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/20c/ayn-rand-59_abolition_the-difference-between-socialism-and-fas_1991866.jpg)
![“This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3b5/christopher-hitchens-117_abolition_this-huge-and-terrible-industry-the-slav_2271791.jpg)
