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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
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
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. -- Karl Marx
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. -- James Madison
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art. -- Michel Foucault
I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples. -- Frank B. Kellogg
The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary. -- Benjamin Tucker
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. -- Roger Nash Baldwin
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. -- Ernest Hemingway
Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life -- Frederick Douglass
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. -- George Clymer
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. -- George Washington
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party -- Karl Marx
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
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair. -- Thomas Jefferson
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations. -- George W. Norris
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
So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition. -- William Wilberforce
The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't have happened without it. The way in which African Americans managed to achieve a degree of self-determination was through the church. -- Simon Schama
It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons. -- Daniel Ellsberg
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time. -- George W. Bush
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
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. -- Maya Angelou
The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. -- Gloria Steinem
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
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
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
I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all. -- Ari Fleischer
I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished. -- Stanley Hauerwas
And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes. -- Robert Walpole
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency. -- Gail Collins
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition. -- Thomas Clarkson
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations. -- George W. Norris
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
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. -- Daisaku Ikeda
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 it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. -- George Washington
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. -- David Harvey
Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery. -- Philip Wollen
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real. -- Gilles Deleuze
I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind. -- Richard Carlile
My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war. -- Joseph Rotblat
The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another. -- Vladimir Lenin
Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike. -- Willard Libby
Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself -- Kenneth E. Boulding
The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow. -- Thomas Jefferson
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs). -- J. R. R. Tolkien
We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war. -- Mao Zedong
The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development. -- Antonio Gramsci
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
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition. -- Peter Marshall
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong. -- Henry George
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man. -- Che Guevara
'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
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
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
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
With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. ... Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood. -- Max Horkheimer
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
If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration? -- Vladimir Lenin
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life. -- Desmond Tutu
I heard of that bloodthirsty old murderer Josef Stalin inviting all nations to join a happy family of folks devoted to the abolition of tyranny and intolerance! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art." -- Michel Foucault
As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery. -- Emma Goldman
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools. -- Peter Medawar
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
The attempt to restrain prices within limits has to be given up. A government that sets out to abolish market prices is inevitably driven towards the abolition of private property. -- Ludwig von Mises
I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another. -- Bertrand Russell
I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service. -- Albert Einstein
Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether. -- Peter Kropotkin
Emerson was not passionate about abolition. He wasn't a passionate person. He was a cool intellectual, and I think he probably was a little uncomfortable with passionate people, but he was against slavery. -- Nell Irvin Painter
Veganism is the application of the principle of abolition in your own life; it represents your recognition that animals are not things. Veganism is the recognition of the moral personhood of nonhuman animals. -- Gary L. Francione
We invite people working for peace to span generations and national boundaries, and gather together to communicate. Let us firmly join hands and foster an even stronger network for nuclear abolition and peace. -- Iccho Itoh
I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty -- Assata Shakur
Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition. -- Tom Regan
We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers. -- Manisha Sinha
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity. -- Desmond Tutu

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