Abolitionism Quotes

#1. Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#2. The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

John H. Reagan

#3. Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

Ibn Warraq

#4. We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers.

Manisha Sinha

#5. Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who ... even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.

Susan Jacoby

#6. Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.

Joaquim Nabuco

#7. The only thing that I am completely certain of after this experience is that I am no longer afraid of death.

Michael Blain

#8. Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become second nature

NT Wright

#9. The first job I got when I was in high school was working for a department store in New York. I worked in the stockroom. That's when I learned that I couldn't work for anyone else, because I was spoken to in a way that I wasn't spoken to at home.

Frankie Knuckles

#10. In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.

Victoria Osteen

#11. Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

Owen Feltham

#12. God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#13. Be of good cheer, carrying a kind of excited anticipation of what your God has in store for you next... this is a powerful kind of faith... it moves mountains.

Russell Kyle

#14. Fear conquers fear. This is how we Spartans do it, counterpoising to fear of death a greater fear: that of dishonor. Of exclusion from the pack.

Steven Pressfield

#15. I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant ... I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.

Markus Zusak

#16. Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#17. Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. Onew hyung usually smiles a lot but when he's serious, I can't stop laughing.

Lee Taemin

#19. When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#20. Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

Bonnell Thornton