"What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays'……" — Jim Hightower

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• There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana,… — Gamaliel Bailey
• I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. — Abraham Lincoln
• As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic… — Del LaGrace Volcano
• Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by… — Susan Jacoby
• The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's… — Unknown Author
• Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But,… — Frederick Douglass
• Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender… — Sheila Jeffreys
• 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
• Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which… — Lerone Bennett, Jr.
• It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. — Nicholas D. Kristof

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