Abolitionism Quote by Ibn Warraq

“As the seemingly well-intentioned French journalist spoke about Africa’s scarcity and its limited resources, Nine smiled to himself almost condescendingly. He considered such statements…

— James Morcan

I was drawn to West Africa. I did listen to a bunch of different styles of African music, and there was something about the…

— Ludwig Goransson

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have…

— Jane Goodall

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

— Anonymous

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation,…

— Susan Jacoby

“[Emerson] saw, in the beginning, no difference between abolitionism and the institutionalized religion he had rejected in the Divinity School address. They were both…

— Louis Menand

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

“It's both a tremendous obligation and honor to undertake the unfulfilled work of the best of our abolitionist precursors--those who did not only want…

— Dylan Rodriguez

“it would have been better never to have made a sacrifice of blood and treasure to save the Union than to have the democratic…

— Ron Chernow

“[T]he West did not invent slavery; the West ended slavery.”

— Pat Buchanan

“Animal welfarism is a blatant lie. Anyone who truly cares for the welfare of another, would never dream of exploiting them. For just as…

— Mango Wodzak

We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the…

— Manisha Sinha

With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without the slightest indication of abatement, he is blind who…

— John C. Calhoun

Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.

— Gad Saad

“What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in…

— Tony Judt