Abolition Quotes

“Prison abolition is more than a politic, it’s a daily practice.”

— Shira Hassan

Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.

— Philip Wollen

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

— George Clymer

My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

— Joseph Rotblat

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

— Thomas Jefferson

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

— Karl Marx

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.

— Richard Carlile

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

— William Wilberforce

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

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say…

— Desmond Tutu

The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.

— Melvyn Bragg

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

— Anonymous

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

— Marquis de Lafayette

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.

— Willard Libby

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

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and…

— Albert Einstein

There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know…

— Henry Ford

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the…

— Anonymous

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among…

— Opal Tometi

The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction…

— Pope Francis

“I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a…

— R.M. Ballantyne

“It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath…

— Russell Banks

Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the…

— Peter Drucker

The atomic bomb survivors... cannot wait another 50 years. Their highest hope is to see the abolition of nuclear weapons within their…

— Iccho Itoh

“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

There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not…

— David Cannadine

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be…

— Vaclav Havel

I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property…

— Sigmund Freud

What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to…

— Christopher Hitchens

An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in…

— Matthew Scully

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

“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin…

— David Mitchell

“There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,”…

— GaryLFrancione

“Though the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment which…

— Frederick Douglass

“The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing…

— GaryLFrancione

“Despite my deep unease about animal advocates working for things we don't want and asking for changes we don't believe in, I…

— Sarahjane Blum

“I dwell mostly upon the religious aspects, because I believe it is the religious people who are to be relied upon in…

— Frederick Douglass

“I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should…

— Gary L. Francione

“Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interests in being treated “humanely,” but that term is interpreted in large…

— Gary L. Francione