Abolitionist Quote by Elbert Guillory

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.

— Elbert Guillory

“…in recent history the Democrat Party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people. Somehow it’s…

— Elbert Guillory

I think it's important to understand the history of the Republican Party. It was founded in 1854 because of the moral collapse of the…

— Steve Schmidt

“The new Republican Party was formed to denounce the act and stop the expansion of slavery, and the abolitionists began to clean their rifles and…

— Andrew Himes

“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.…

— Elbert Guillory

The history of the Republican Party is a history of fighting for freedom and equality for all people. We need to stand up for…

— Mark Robinson

Republicans were historically the party ever-expanding freedom to disenfranchised minorities, from newly liberated slaves to giving women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony…

— Margaret Hoover

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the…

— Marion Barry

I chose the Republican Party because of the principles the party was founded on. This was the party of freedom. This was the party…

— Ryan Frazier

“The new Republican party thought that it did, and in its 1856 platform denounced slavery and polygamy together as ‘twin relics of barbarism’. Or”

— Hugh Brogan

Prodded by the needs of the Union cause, the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave them land…

— Heather Cox Richardson

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

— Barack Obama