Famous Quotes - Tags - Abolitionism

  • ... this nation is rotten at the heart, and ... nothing but the most tremendous blows with the... More
  • ... women learned one important lesson—namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to... More
  • ...I am an abolitionist for the sake of my own race—Contact with the African degenerates our... More
  • ...I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be... More
  • Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle. More
  • Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were... More
  • Dost thou ask what I mean by emancipation?... 1. It is “to reject with indignation, the wile... More
  • I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to... More
  • I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most... More
  • it was not enough to be for abolition/while the spirit of the masters
    flickered in the... More
  • My country is bleeding, my people are perishing around me. But I feel as a South Carolinian, I am... More
  • Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit... More
  • Southern women are ... all at heart abolitionists. More
  • Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an... More
  • We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. More
  • We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the... More
  • You are de cause of de brutality of these poor creeters. For you’re de children of those who... More

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