Abolition Quote by Eric Metaxas

The abolition of slavery was driven by the King James Bible. It gave slaves a common language and purpose.

— Melvyn Bragg

Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just…

— Marianne Williamson

The Bible Belt, the religious South, is the section of the country that practiced slavery until the war made them give it up. They…

— John Shelby Spong

“The automobile, which began as a transportation convenience, has become a bloody tyrant (50,000 lives a year), and it is the responsibility of the…

— Edward Abbey

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

— John Shelby Spong

The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't…

— Simon Schama

Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Slavery ended, but the idea of race lived on.

— Michelle Alexander

It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies were able…

— Michael Shellenberger

Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized.…

— Matthew Sweet

“There was nothing like it before in history: a machine that promised liberation from the daily bondage of place. And in a free country…

— James Howard Kunstler

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

— Ava DuVernay