Quotes About Ending Slavery

#1. 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

#2. Look at liberty's greatest historic advances: ending slavery. Giving women the vote. Outlawing legal segregation. Each and every time, the people at the forefront of advancing those reforms - often putting their lives on the line - called themselves liberals.

Rick Perlstein

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

Rush Limbaugh

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

Manisha Sinha

#5. Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

Joe Torre

#6. There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. I'm busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesn't appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

Steve Albini

#8. We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#9. And if anything comes against us, we will do what we have always done."
"Fight?"
"Win.

J.J. McAvoy

#10. Things are what they are, even when you don't know what they are.

Marty Rubin

#11. Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

Claude Monet

#12. I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.

Joe Klein

#13. Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.

Bradley Denton

#14. Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.

Lucretius

#15. Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history.

Henry Louis Gates

#16. I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being processed.

John Brockman

#17. A winner is not declared,

Erin Morgenstern

#18. The public is never wrong.

Adolph Zukor

#19. Sometimes we just have to trust that time and fate will bring us back to where we are supposed to be. Sometimes patience and belief are all we have.

Terry Brooks