Abolish Quote by Jill Stein

“The new Republican Party was formed to denounce the act and stop the expansion of slavery, and the abolitionists began to clean their rifles and…

— Andrew Himes

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the…

— Marion Barry

In 1860, the Republicans put Lincoln in the White House, and Southerners left the Union. Their absence opened the way for the new party…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is…

— Elbert Guillory

“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.…

— Elbert Guillory

Prodded by the needs of the Union cause, the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave them land…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that…

— Laurence M. Keitt

In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites.

— Max Boot

We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple…

— Horace Greeley

Coming up in America in the '80s and '90s, we were not too far removed from slavery. People forget that.

— Freddie Gibbs

“…in recent history the Democrat Party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people. Somehow it’s…

— Elbert Guillory

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys…

— Bill Ayers