Abolitionists Quotes

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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
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
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.
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
Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as… — Paul Hawken
There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders. — Robert Toombs

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