{"quotes":[{"text":"Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","flowers","pretty-girl","pretty-girls","race-relations","racism","slavery"],"id":279,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","education","exploitation","francione","inspirational","justice","life","nonviolence","nonviolence-jainism","peace-making","peace-movement","peace-on-earth","rights","sentience","slavery","veganism","wisdom"],"id":16314,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.","author":"Wendell Phillips","tags":["abolition","class","revolution","slavery"],"id":20719,"author_id":"Wendell+Phillips"},{"text":"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.","author":"Gary L. Francione","tags":["abolition","abolitionist","ahimsa","animals","exploitation","inspirational","justice","movement","nonviolence","peace","peace-movement","rights","veganism"],"id":34521,"author_id":"Gary+L.+Francione"},{"text":"Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.).","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["abolition","africa","american-imperialism","anti-americanism","britain","british-empire","caribbean","imperialism","iraq-war","morality","politics","slave-trade","united-states"],"id":40258,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.","author":"Timothy J. Keller","tags":["abolition","bible","christian","slave-trade","slavery"],"id":41825,"author_id":"Timothy+J.+Keller"},{"text":"The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon, it lies. . . Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave?","author":"Solomon Northup","tags":["abolition","government","morality","natural-law"],"id":59731,"author_id":"Solomon+Northup"},{"text":"How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.","author":"Wendell Phillips","tags":["abolition","immortality","memory","slavery"],"id":61287,"author_id":"Wendell+Phillips"},{"text":"She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["abolition","colored","race","race-america","race-relations","racism","slavery","white-people"],"id":94779,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.","author":"Hannah More","tags":["abolition","abolitionism","slavery"],"id":103305,"author_id":"Hannah+More"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}