Accustomed Quote by Gerry Spence

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

— Carl Bernstein

I don't consider myself a 'radical.' Radical in American society has, I think, become this buzzword that makes a lot of ideas and discussions…

— Chelsea Manning

So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the…

— William Wilberforce

In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him…

— Henry Highland Garnet

Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery.…

— Unita Blackwell

Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of…

— Neal Brennan

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was…

— David Oyelowo

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa,…

— Loretta Napoleoni

And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use…

— George Orwell

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil…

— Robert E. Lee

In trying to address the systemic problem of racial injustice, we would do well to look at abolitionism, because here is a movement of…

— Manisha Sinha

In these days, nations are militant, we have slavery under government.

— The Clash