Quotes on Abolitionist

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

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.

I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the United States and throughout the Americas, including places like Haiti, the first black republic founded on the principles of anti-colonialism and black liberation.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done...in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln.

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

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

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.