Quotes on 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.