Abolition Quotes

Abolition Quote of the day

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.

Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?