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Abolition Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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,…
- The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
- 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…
- The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
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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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- My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and… — Thomas Jefferson
- In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto… — Karl Marx
- I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington
- The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant… — Thomas Jefferson
- All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and… — Oliver Ellsworth
- There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight
- For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong. — Henry George