Abolition Quotes
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Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.
— Philip Wollen
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
— Thomas Jefferson
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
— Ernesto Che Guevara
The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.
— Antonio Gramsci
We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.
— Mao Zedong
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.
— Henry L. Benning
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.
— Peter Marshall
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
— David Harvey
My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.
— Joseph Rotblat
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
— Wendell Phillips
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
— Gilles Deleuze
When you have dived off a cliff, your only hope is to press for the abolition of gravity.
— Terry Pratchett
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.
— Vladimir Lenin
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.
— Gloria Steinem
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.
— Sue Monk Kidd
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
— Marquis De Sade
Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections..
— Louis De Bernieres
I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science
— Albert Einstein
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
— Wendell Phillips
I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.
— Richard Carlile
Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself
— Kenneth E. Boulding
1849 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels present, The Communist Manifesto, declaring "the abolition of private property.
— Brian Sussman
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.
— Rebecca Latimer Felton
Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.
— Shannon Celebi
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
— Angelina Grimke
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.
— Edward Abbey
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
— Friedrich Engels
Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life
— Frederick Douglass
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
— Thomas Jefferson
The only result of a truly dedicated campaign to get rid of evil will be the abolition of literally everybody.
— Robert Farrar Capon
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
— William Wilberforce
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
— George Washington
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.
— Gary L. Francione
All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property
— Gary L. Francione
She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.
— Shannon Celebi
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
— Sojourner Truth
But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.
— Dennis Kucinich
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
— Frederick Douglass