Abolishing Slavery Quotes:

Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

- George Fitzhugh

topic: Slavery, Abolishing Slavery, Slave

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

- Maria Weston Chapman

topic: Character, People, Done, Abolishing Slavery, Be A Slave

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

- Dar Williams

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Song, Slavery, Good Things, Abolishing Slavery

My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.

- William Lloyd Garrison

source: William Lloyd Garrison (1854). “No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, February 14, 1854”, p.6

topic: Mean, Men, Rights, Abolishing Slavery

In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.

- William Sloane Coffin

topic: Gay, Biblical, Reality, Abolishing Slavery

I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.

- Elizabeth May

topic: Reality, Blue, Giving, Abolishing Slavery

For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.

- Marco Rubio

source: Source: www.cnn.com

topic: Keys, Rights, Perfect, Abolishing Slavery, Natural Death

Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.

- Ibn Warraq

source: Source: counterjihadreport.com

topic: Self Criticism, African Tribes, Abolishing Slavery