Top 17 Quotes About The Abolitionist Movement

#1. From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

Michael Ondaatje

#2. Reports of missing persons have increased sixfold in the last twenty-five years, from roughly 150,000 in 1980 to 900,000 this year . . . More than 2,000 a day.

Craig Johnson

#3. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.

Elbert Guillory

#4. She turned towards me. Her hair had fallen over her eyes and she was laughing.

Albert Camus

#5. Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

Sara Teasdale

#6. They disconnect biblical truths from each other like a depraved artist who rearranges the pieces of a beautiful mosaic.

David K. Clark

#7. Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did

Henny Youngman

#8. The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

Marcus Rediker

#9. To learn from the past is good, but to live there is a waste. To plan for the future is good, but to live there is a waste. You are happiest and most productive in life when you are living in the present.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#10. Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them.

Mike Huckabee

#11. It wasn't that they participated in criminal activity. It was that their activities could be construed as criminal.

Kristen Ashley

#12. There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.

Laura Dern

#13. Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists.

Paul Hawken

#14. But it's perplexingly sweet,
and quite sexy too
to be ignored,
ignored by you.

Lang Leav

#15. Life is greater when I'm dealing with something than when I'm just dreaming away.

Lykke Li

#16. It's time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#17. Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

Henry Ford

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