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Quotes About Abolition

The relics of idolatry ought to be abolished as affronts to the holy God and a great reproach to human nature.
~ Matthew Henry
The moral he drew from the story of ancient slavery in 1836 was that Christianity's benevolent influence had almost imperceptibly and with the spirit of love abolished slavery.
~ Unknown
He thus rejected union versus abolition as a false choice and adopted as his pseudonym the rather wordy but telling "A FRIEND OF THE UNION, AND AN ENEMY OF SLAVERY."34
~ Unknown
Apreender a diferença em termos dialéticos é tornar aparentes os termos contraditórios a serem resolvidos. Entender a realidade social em termos do materialismo dialético é apreender as oposições entre classes, termo a termo, e fazer com que se encontrem na mesma cópula (um conflito na ordem social), o que também configura uma resolução (uma abolição na ordem social) das contradições aparentes.
~ Monique Wittig
The ultimate libertarian program may be summed up in one phrase: the abolition of the public sector, the conversion of all operations and services performed by the government into activities performed voluntarily by the private-enterprise economy.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
Identifying the bourgeois class with the bourgeois mentality tricks the enemies of the bourgeoisie. The liquidation of a bourgeois class in the modern world is, in effect, nothing more than a slaughter that does not imply the abolition of a bourgeois mentality that already dominates all of society.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The abolitionists study whiteness in order to abolish it—not to "reframe," or "redeem," or "deconstruct" it but to abolish it.
~ Noel Ignatiev
The war against the Canadian seal hunt is more than a protest. It is a crusade to bring harmony between the natural world and humanity. All of us who oppose it are dedicated to the protection of life and the abolition of cruelty.
~ Paul Watson
by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
~ Ephesians 2:15