“I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.” GivingEndsRealityEarthNextVisionPlanetsReadyBalanceSafeVoteBlueSlaveryGreenErasFuelLeapFossilsEmergingFossil FuelAbolishing Slavery Author:Elizabeth May
“Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters” MastersSlaverySlaveAbolishing Slavery Author:George Fitzhugh
“For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.” ProblemNationsNaturalPerfectLeaderRolesRightsAchieveCenturyKeysBecomingOne DayOvercomingSlaveryUnionsInspiredCivil RightsHopefullyConceptionProtectedNatural DeathAbolishing Slavery Author:Marco Rubio
“Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.” SelfBlackCapacityCriticismSlaverySlaveWestPrisonerInitiativeTribesExceptionalRivalsAbolitionSelf CriticismAfrican TribesAbolishing Slavery Author:Ibn Warraq
“My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.” PeopleMenMeanEvilRightsCrimeDevilSlaveryMultitudesFanaticismSingularityAbolishing Slavery Book:No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, February 14, 1854 Source: No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, February 14, 1854
“As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.” SaidStillsSongSlaveryGood ThingsJustifyAbolishing Slavery Author:Dar Williams
“In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.” RealityReligionMillionsGoneGaySlaveryBiblicalProtestantsHomophobiaSelectiveAbolishing Slavery Author:William Sloane Coffin
“Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.” PeopleDoneCharacterNationsHigherSlaverySlaveBe A SlaveAbolishing Slavery Author:Maria Weston Chapman