Democracy Quote by Angela Y. Davis

“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“It has come as a great revelation to me that abolitionist is different from the desire for racial equality. Color prejudice is at the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“It's both a tremendous obligation and honor to undertake the unfulfilled work of the best of our abolitionist precursors--those who did not only want…

— Dylan Rodriguez

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation…

— Shelby Foote

I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the United States…

— Patrisse Cullors

“This is the struggle of every person: be free or be a slave.”

— Pope Francis

“What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society that could…

— Fred Moten and Stefano Harney

“A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.”

— Paulo Freire

“THE FIRM POLITICAL and scientific support for slavery made it all the more difficult for the abolitionists to change the minds of the consumers…

— Ibram X. Kendi