Abolitionist Quote by Susan Jacoby

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

— Carter G. Woodson

America's gravest moral evil, chattel slavery, was defeated by an authoritarian president in a religious civil war, not by proceduralism or constitutional debate.

— Ross Douthat

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

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

“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

“In the first years after the Revolutionary War, Baptist evangelicals in the South as well as throughout the country were deeply opposed to slavery.…

— Andrew Himes

“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

The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't…

— Simon Schama

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived…

— Gerry Spence

“This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.” “No it isn’t,” I said. “That book wasn’t even written until a century…

— Octavia E. Butler

“While the sanitizers and rewriters of history have gone to enormous lengths to portray the second American revolution, also known as the Civil War,…

— Joseph Befumo

This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. .…

— Christopher Hitchens