Slavery Abolitionist Quotes

#1. I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father, to me, and what can happen to my kids.

Archie Shepp

#2. Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

Gary L. Francione

#3. Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.

Shannon Celebi

#4. If someone says that they have to 'tolerate' cultural differences and cultural groupings different from themselves then that may make it difficult, at the same time, to condemn unjust practices within those cultures.

Alison Assiter

#5. That was when I realized we weren't born to be
slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master of another. We were all meant to be free, and somewhere there were good people helping to heal this broken world.

Jay Grewal

#6. Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.

Joan Of Arc

#7. This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw."
"No it isn't," I said. "That book wasn't even written until a century after slavery was abolished."
"Then why the hell are they still complaining about it?

Octavia E. Butler

#8. I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

Frederick Douglass

#9. The reformer," Douglass explained in 1883, had "a difficult and disagreeable task before him. He has to part with old friends; break away from the beaten paths of society, and advance against the vehement protests of the most sacred sentiments of the human heart.

James Oakes

#10. All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property

Gary L. Francione

#11. Primary goal for the author: 'Write what you mean to say'
Primary goal for the reader: 'Read what the author actually writes

Falcon Dove

#12. Doctor, if I put this here guitar down now I ain't never going to wake up.

Huddie William Ledbetter

#13. The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Denis Waitley

#14. Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.

John Grogan

#15. I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Abraham Lincoln

#16. Run like the river.

Suzanne Collins

#17. I don't have a problem with big name actors coming into animation. It actually has been done for years and we are after all actors, it is just a different medium that requires a different technique.

Frank Welker