Abolition Quotes
108 quotes by 85 authors
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class,…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
— Edward Abbey
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
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Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough…
— Jonathan Schell
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity,…
— Ronald Reagan
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist…
— Karl Marx
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I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
— George Washington
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The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
— Thomas Jefferson
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All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting…
— Oliver Ellsworth
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There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more…
— Margaret E. Knight
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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
— Henry George
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I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed…
— Desmond Tutu
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I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice,…
— Albert Einstein
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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence…
— Desmond Tutu
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The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I wish most anxiously to see my much loved America - it is the Country from whence all reformations must originally spring - I despair…
— Thomas Paine
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You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the…
— Michel Foucault
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I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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