Slavery Abolition Quotes
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Slavery Abolition Quotes & Sayings
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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
Placing wonder on a beautiful baby Young, fresh with innocence Trials of life Dusted with vision Waiting to be polluted
— William O'Brien
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
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
— Frederick Douglass
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
When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.
— Jill Scott
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
— Wendell Phillips
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
— Maya Angelou
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.
— George Clymer
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
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
All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property
— Gary L. Francione
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
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
— George Washington
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
— William Wilberforce
Affliction does not come by chance - the weight of every stroke of the rod - is accurately measured.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Become who you are.
— Pope John Paul II
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.
— Thomas Jefferson
Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life
— Frederick Douglass