Abolishing Slavery Quotes

• Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Character, People, Done

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• As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

  Dar Williams

  Song, Slavery, Good Things

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Mean, Men, Rights

  William Lloyd Garrison (1854). “No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, February 14, 1854”, p.6

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• In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Biblical, Gay, Reality

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• I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.

  Elizabeth May

  Reality, Blue, Giving

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• Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters

  George Fitzhugh

  Slavery, Slave, Masters

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• For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.

  Marco Rubio

  Keys, Rights, Perfect

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.

  Ibn Warraq

  Self, African Tribes, Black

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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