Abolition Quotes

“The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”

“Slavery can be limited to its present bounds; it can be ameliorated. It can be and must be abolished, and you and I can and must do it.”

“The main plank in our platform is the abolition of the Gendarme.”

“I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system is a crime.”

“I would that every one of my poor enslaved brethren and sisters were this day free.”

“The ballot-box is the surest weapon of the slave.”

“Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.”

“Abolish the word 'slave' from your dictionaries.”

“Slavery is a nefarious institution. It is the curse of heaven on the States where it prevails.”

“Slavery is the curse of heaven on the States where it prevails.”

“There can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves.”

“Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.”

“Slavery and Freedom cannot exist together.”

“Slavery is the sum of all villainies.”

“Abolitionists never sought place or power. All they asked was freedom; all they sought was justice.”

“The great, the important day, is now arrived, when the most momentous question is to be decided which ever was agitated in this House.”

“Let us not, then, be deterred by the vain terrors which have been held out to us, by the phantoms of insurrection and massacre.”

“I am an abolitionist, not because I am a woman, but because I am a human being.”

“Immediate emancipation is the right of the slave and the duty of the master.”

“Slavery is a sin against God and a crime against man.”