Free Quote by Robert Toombs

While never the darling of pure free traders, measures to combat dumping, subsidies, and injurious import surges have always been deemed essential by open…

— Robert Lighthizer

Modern free-traders... embrace their ideal with a passion that makes Robespierre seem prudent. They embrace unbridled free trade, even as it helps China become…

— Robert Lighthizer

The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people who were…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and…

— Fanny Kemble

I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years…

— Ernest Gowers

“Certain black women faced the triple hurdle—of being abolitionists in a slave society, of being black among white reformers, and of being women in…

— Howard Zinn

“In a democratic society, a wrongful practice persists only when most people don’t perceive it to be unjust. At first, only a small minority…

— Peter Thiel

We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown…

— John Landgraf

Oftentimes, a history book in school will talk about the Underground Railroad as if it's one sentence. But thousands of people decided to run,…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.

— Will Shetterly

Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists…

— Paul Hawken

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

— Susan B. Anthony