"Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground,……" — Frederick Douglass

"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 of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln."

— Frederick Douglass

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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. — Abraham Lincoln
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The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be… — Henry McNeal Turner
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I… — Gamaliel Bailey
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights. — Susan B. Anthony
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It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof
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