Abolition Quote by Jonathan Schell

“Abolition is not some disstant future but something we create in every moment when we say no to the traps of empire and yes…

— Eric A. Stanley

While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers &…

— Robert E. Lee

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it,…

— Patrick Henry

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

— Thomas Huxley

With abolition, it's necessary to destroy systems of oppression. But it's equally necessary to put at the forefront our conversations about creation. When we…

— Patrisse Cullors

As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which…

— Munshi Premchand

All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the…

— Oliver Ellsworth

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

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

— Robert E. Lee

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

— Vaclav Havel

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe…

— Kailash Satyarthi