#abolition

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

#american-history #black-history #civil-war #equality #faith

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

— Gary L. Francione

#animal-products #dairy #exploitation #francione #milk

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #ethical #francione #moral-imperative

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#cases #cite #denounced #emancipation #opposed

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#down #turning #upside #upside down #women

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#beauty-in-literature #freedom #freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. ↗

— James Madison

#capital #capital punishment #entire #fair #full

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#human-rights #politics #slavery #suffrage #knowledge

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #francione #inspirational-quotes