X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Abolitionist" (19)

Page 1 of 1
Filter & Style
Image
Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.
Jane Swisshelm
Image
I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Hillary Clinton began a New York thank-you tour Friday by calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. No wonder Arkansas never liked her. She hasn't been in office three days and already she's an abolitionist.
Argus Hamilton
Image
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
Dennis Prager
Image
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.
Elbert Guillory
Image
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by the enlivening dews of God's clemency, till the reapers abolitionists shall shout the harvest home.
Henry McNeal Turner
Image
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.
John Landgraf
Image
Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.
Manisha Sinha
Image
One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.
Quentin Tarantino
Image
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
Susan B. Anthony
Image
In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.
Zephyr Teachout
Image
I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.
Abraham Lincoln
Image
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.
Charles Colson
Image
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.
Elbert Guillory
Image
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
Frederick Douglass
Image
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.
Lucy Stone
Image
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.
Marcus Rediker
Image
Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.
Sophy Burnham
Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.
Susan Jacoby