Abolition Quotes

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

“Slavery and Freedom cannot exist together.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Slavery is the sum of all villainies.”

“Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader?”

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