Abolition Quotes

108 quotes by 85 authors

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary… — Vaclav Havel
The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union--complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within… — Ron Paul
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs). — J.R.R. Tolkien
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. — Gilles Deleuze
While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all… — Robert E. Lee
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his… — Plato
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental… — Ralph Nader
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .… — Christopher Hitchens
What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life — Frederick Douglass
Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment… — Frederick Douglass
It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free… — Peter Kropotkin
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men… — Peter Kropotkin
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the destruction… — Errico Malatesta
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. — Angelina Grimke
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
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
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in… — G. Edward Griffin
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the… — G. Edward Griffin
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another. — Vladimir Lenin

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