Abolitionist Quote by Abraham Lincoln Download Open image “I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.” — Abraham Lincoln ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abolitionist Government Illinois Shots
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“For decades, the government has worked tirelessly to restrict our Second Amendment rights. Somehow believing that a disarmed society is immune from violence, the… — Scottie Nell Hughes 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 property, from… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value… — Samuel L. Jackson 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 or overlook… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement. — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
So whether that's taking a bunch of people from Chicago down to Standing Rock or being in Flint, Michigan, or being in Palestine or… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
“The Audacity of Despair "You can stand your ground if you're white, and you can use a gun to do it. But if you… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot. — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. — Abraham Lincoln 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 the other,… — Samuel Gridley Howe 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 as harsh… — William Lloyd Garrison 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 the master… — Jay Grewal 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
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' -… — Quentin Tarantino 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 that, even… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof 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, am I… — Lucy Stone 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. Four years… — Ernest Gowers 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 model of… — Eric Foner 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 and could… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image