Abolished Quotes

124 quotes by 102 authors

Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the… — Richard Henry Lee
Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished. — Immanuel Kant
Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors. — Charles Bukowski
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education. — Robert Charles Winthrop
Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all the new Testament… — George Gillespie
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the… — Robert E. Lee
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []… — William Faulkner
Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking. — Nina Simone
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably… — Terry Eagleton
We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become… — George Orwell
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world. — Pope John Paul II
It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the… — Kwame Nkrumah
The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means of… — Friedrich Engels
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give… — Bill Gates
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or… — John Rawls
The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was… — John Coleman
The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the… — Randolph Bourne
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them… — Maria Weston Chapman
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile… — Walter Duranty
This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. Itâ€™s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin blaming… — Janet Mock

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