#abolition

Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. ↗

— George Clymer

#among #constitution #expected #glories #next

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

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#adjusted #change #democracy #forms #heart

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#acting #also #apparently #argue #behalf

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#ago #america #ancestors #came #dissenters

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings depend for life. In my view, the animal rights movement is, at its core, a movement about ending violence to all sentient beings. It is a movement that seeks fundamental justice for all. It is an emerging peace movement that does not stop at the arbitrary line that separates humans from nonhumans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #exploitation #inspirational

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#immortality #memory #slavery #men

Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in which men do the least possible violence to each other (which is to state just the negative of it), then we are committed not simply to try to avoid violence ourselves, but to try to destroy patterns of violence which already exist. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#prison #violence #men

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery. ↗

— George Washington

#adopted #i #i can #i do #living