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  • Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. -- Jane Swisshelm
  • 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
  • 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
  • There were thousands of abolitionists who were free traders. -- Robert Toombs
  • One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. -- Carter G. Woodson
  • Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry. -- Will Shetterly
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • 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
  • What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. -- Jim Hightower
  • 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
  • Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights. -- Susan B. Anthony
  • I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery. -- Manisha Sinha
  • 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
  • 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
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