Abolition Quote by Bill Ayers

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released.

— Clint Smith

Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of people like…

— James McBride

In every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass, presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.

— Al Sharpton

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

“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.…

— Elbert Guillory

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

— Sunday Adelaja

If I had to write down the most important people in the history of this planet, No.1 would be (abolitionist) John Brown. Why? Because…

— Dick Gregory

“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of making war…

— Bruce Catton

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

— Abraham Lincoln

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

— Robert E. Lee