"Enslaving each other was what human beings had……" — Paul Hawken
"Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists."
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98 Quotes by Paul Hawken
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The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more…
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The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't…
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When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides,…
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I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.
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We are the only species on this planet without full employment.
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People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions,…
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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get…
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What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order…
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Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress,…
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Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check…
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We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms from landfills to Superfund cleanups, from deep-well injection to…
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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
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
— Abraham Lincoln
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As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic…
— Del LaGrace Volcano
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by…
— Susan Jacoby
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The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's…
— Unknown Author
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Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But,…
— Frederick Douglass
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Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I…
— Gamaliel Bailey
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Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
— Susan B. Anthony
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Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which…
— Lerone Bennett, Jr.
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It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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