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Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy. -- Gary L. Francione
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement. -- Elbert Guillory
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker. -- Frederick Douglass
I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. -- Abraham Lincoln
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. -- Carter G. Woodson
I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women. -- Lucy Stone
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
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
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. -- Pete Seeger
Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery. -- Hal Holbrook
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous. -- John Sergeant Wise
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
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
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati. -- Gamaliel Bailey
Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable -- Gary L. Francione
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
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
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
There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say. -- Gamaliel Bailey
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
It's time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible. -- Ava DuVernay
Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists. -- Paul Hawken
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany. -- Pete Seeger
In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. -- Gloria Steinem
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

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