Activists Quote by Paul Hawken

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

“And where abolitionists preached slavery as a violation against the higher law, Southerners angrily countered with their own version of the deity, that it…

— Jay Winik

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could…

— John Sergeant Wise

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

— Jane Swisshelm

“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

“Most striking, however, was the position taken in the 1840s by William Lloyd Garrison and his wing of the abolitionist movement. The Garrisonians had…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Since the 1950s, Movement Conservatives have fought the fair examination of their ideas. They embrace a worldview in which a few wealthy men control…

— Heather Cox Richardson

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

Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement - these…

— Jill Stein

“A favorite liberal taunt is to accuse conservatives of clinging to an idealized past. Poor, right-wing Americans vaguely sense the world is changing and…

— Ann Coulter