But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall… — Elijah Parish Lovejoy Copy Share Image
In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement. — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women. — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
“If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would… — Gamaliel Bailey Copy Share Image
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As Frederick Douglas, the famous abolitionist, said: "power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will." You need… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both inperson and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not… — Gamaliel Bailey Copy Share Image
“You have probably seen the order from Washington which cuts down the pay for colored troops from $13 to $10. Of course… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is… — Elizabeth Van Lew Copy Share Image
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I… — John Brown Copy Share Image
