Abolition Of Slavery Quotes:

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

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.109, Penguin

topic: Thinking, Abolition Of Slavery, Civil War

My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life), was slightly tinged with a feeling of sadness.

- Frederick Douglass

source: "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time".

topic: Abolition Of Slavery, Desire, Labor

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.

- George Washington

source: George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.159

topic: 4th Of July, Men, Abolition Of Slavery, Our Founding Fathers, Abolition

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

- George Washington

source: George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Abolition Of Slavery, Soul, Wish

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

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Abolition Of Slavery, Revolution, Bears

I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one HONESTman, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.10, Hayes Barton Press

topic: Men, Names, Abolition Of Slavery, Slavery In America

If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.

- Wynton Marsalis

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Abolition Of Slavery, Negative, Would Be

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

topic: Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic, Independence And Freedom, Independence Day Patriotic

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Life, Strong, Freedom, States Rights, Abolition

Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts so that the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 'no one shall be held in slavery or servitude' - ring true.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Children, Men, Rights, Servitude, Abolition

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: 4th Of July, Patriotic, Men, Abolition Of Slavery, Slavery Freedom

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

- William Wilberforce

topic: Inspirational, Peace, Looks, Modern Slavery, Abolition

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.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.515

topic: Abolition, Abolition Of Slavery, Slavery Freedom

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Dream, Son, Equality, Mississippi, Masters And Slaves

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Wisdom, Freedom, Men, Abolition Of Slavery, Slavery Freedom

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Declaration of Independence (1776).

topic: Life, Change, Happiness, Social Equality, Inaugural Speech

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Inspiring, Women, Equality, Social Equality, Social Groups

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

- Bob Marley

source: "Redemption Song" (song) (1980)

topic: Inspirational, Music, Song, Love Freedom, Independent Thinking

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Issues, Slavery, Serious, Abolition Of Slavery, Illiteracy

Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.

- Eric Foner

source: "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

topic: Country, Attitude, Black And White, Colonization, Multiracial

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln, Karl Marx (2011). “An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln”, p.116, Verso Books

topic: Military, War, Government, Proclamation, Abolitionist

Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course.

- G. Edward Griffin

topic: War, Southern, Done, Plantations, Abolition Of Slavery

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

source: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2016). “What is Property?”, p.10, Cosimo Classics

topic: Law, Rights, Justice, Alphas, Alpha And Omega

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

- Gary L. Francione

topic: Animal, Needs, Purpose, Abolition Of Slavery, Veganism

All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported.

- Oliver Ellsworth

topic: Taken, Men, Race, Abolition Of Slavery

When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and states, and things like that, slavery was to their benefit. To oppose it didn't make any sense at all on a rational basis. But on a rights basis, on a principle basis, it made obvious, overwhelming sense.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.nesta.org.uk

topic: Thinking, Class, White, Abolition Of Slavery

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?

- G. Edward Griffin

topic: War, Goal, Southern, Abolition Of Slavery

There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap of liquor and this excellent condition will go on spreading over the country when the wet press and the paid propogandists of booze are forgotten. The abolition of the commercialized liquor trade in this country is as final as the abolition of slavery.

- Henry Ford

topic: Abolition, Abolition Of Slavery, Saloons

Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children.When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

- Sean Hannity

topic: Children, Couple, Party, Canadian Government, Potato Famine

When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?

- Mark Steyn

topic: Party, Racism, Slavery, Abolition Of Slavery

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

- C. L. R. James

topic: Taken, Years, People, Abolition, Abolition Of Slavery

Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.

- Gilbert Simondon

source: "On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects". Book by Gilbert Simondon, University of Western Ontario, June 1980.

topic: Philosophy, Slavery, Recognition, Abolition Of Slavery, Affirming

Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid and the attainment of peace. It is now the turn of men to join women in their struggle for equality.

- Gertrude Mongella

topic: Country, Struggle, Men, Abolition Of Slavery

For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Bible, God, Religious, Outreach, Abolition Of Slavery

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

- Philip Wollen

topic: Animal, Rights, Issues, Abolition, Abolition Of Slavery

On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts to build societies in which slavery truly is a term for the history books.

- Ban Ki-moon

topic: Children, Book, Men, Abolition, Abolition Of Slavery

There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more infamous practice than slavery in the ancient world - was initiated, carried on and defended by Christian men in Christian countries.

- Margaret E. Knight

topic: Christian, Country, Men, Ancient World, Abolition Of Slavery

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

- George Clymer

topic: Slavery, Next, Constitution, Abolition, Abolition Of Slavery

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: Alexis de Tocqueville (1862). “Democracy in America”, p.486

topic: War, Struggle, Mean, Abolition, Abolition Of Slavery

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.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Our Generation, Rights, Justice, Abolition Of Slavery

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Wise, Men, Voting, Abolition, Civil Disobedience