Ending Slavery Quotes

• Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  Carl Bernstein

  Political, Reform, Movement

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• I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

  David Swanson

  Children, Thinking, Voting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Nazism, Slavery

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• Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

  Manisha Sinha

  Ongoing, Slavery, Way

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it doesn't fit the image of the Great Emancipator. It doesn't fit the retrospective view we want to have of Lincoln as the man who was the moralist in politics, who came into office committed to ending slavery and waited to sign this document.

  Eric Foner

  Book, Men, Views

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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