Abolitionist Quotes

Abolitionist Quote of the day

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

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

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.

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

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

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

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

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

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.

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

The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

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 with Paul Giamatti.

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

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

This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.