Abolitionist Quote by Gamaliel Bailey

There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support…

— Gamaliel Bailey

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

— Manisha Sinha

I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both inperson and property, from…

— Henry David Thoreau

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

— Abraham Lincoln

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at…

— Charles Colson

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

— Jane Swisshelm

In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as it appears,…

— Frederick Douglass

Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which was authored and pressured…

— Lerone Bennett, Jr

We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown…

— John Landgraf

Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists…

— Paul Hawken

There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of…

— Eric Foner

I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years…

— Ernest Gowers

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

— Susan B. Anthony

You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a…

— Noam Chomsky

“The disturbances in the country grew not out of anything republican, but out of slavery, which is a part of the system of hereditary…

— George Bancroft