Abolitionist Quotes

27 quotes by 23 authors

There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such… — Gamaliel Bailey
I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. — Abraham Lincoln
As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body.Â I… — Del LaGrace Volcano
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who… — Susan Jacoby
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror,… — Marcus Rediker
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments… — Frederick Douglass
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to… — Sheila Jeffreys
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews… — Henry McNeal Turner
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we… — Gamaliel Bailey
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights. — Susan B. Anthony
Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured into… — Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Itâ€™s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not… — John Sergeant Wise
Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a… — Elbert Guillory
I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible. — Ava DuVernay
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including… — Jim Hightower
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is… — Dennis Prager
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen… — Pete Seeger
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. — Carter G. Woodson
Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing… — Gary L. Francione

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