It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton began a New York thank-you tour Friday by calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. No wonder Arkansas never… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defence of these uses… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown.… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die.… — Sophy Burnham Copy Share Image
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“How many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world? It was an abolitionist’s print, not… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual to become vegan. Veganism, or the eschewing of all… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads.… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use animal products? Of course… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Whether by the House or by the People, if an Abolitionist be chosen President of the United States, you will have presented… — Jefferson Davis 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
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of… — Del LaGrace Volcano Copy Share Image
“There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is objectionable because it is “judgmental,”… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth,… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and… — Marcus Rediker Copy Share Image
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is… — Samuel Gridley Howe 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
“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement. — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
