Abolitionist Quotes · Page 4

Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the…

— Hal Holbrook

You [men] are our protectors, is not true; for if you were, who would there be to protect us from?

— Mary Edwards Walker

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

— Manisha Sinha

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

— John Brown