Abolition Quotes

108 Abolition quotes by 85 unique authors

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it. — Sue Monk Kidd
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. — Gloria Steinem
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it… — Thomas Clarkson
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached… — C L R James
And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge… — Robert Walpole
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the… — George Washington
I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has… — Ari Fleischer
Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being. — Erich Fromm

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