"There were thousands of abolitionists who were free…" — Robert Toombs

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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
• Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by… — Susan Jacoby
• Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender… — Sheila Jeffreys
• The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be… — Henry McNeal Turner
• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I… — Gamaliel Bailey
• Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights. — Susan B. Anthony
• Who freed the slaves? To the extent that they were ever u2018freed,' they were freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, which… — Lerone Bennett, Jr.
• What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists… — Jim Hightower
• Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that… — Dennis Prager
• Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in… — Pete Seeger
• One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. — Carter G. Woodson
• Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative… — Paul Hawken

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