Abolish Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of…

— Mercy Otis Warren

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

“Modern society did not abolish slavery, but only regulated it.”

— Dario de Judicibus

“Perhaps an even more remarkable contribution of Britain to the growth of freedom in the world was its leading role in the destruction of…

— Thomas Sowell

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and…

— John Quincy Adams

I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its…

— Tony Blair

We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.

— Marisol Nichols

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty

— Samuel Johnson

We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will free us…

— Gerry Spence

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

— John Ridley