92 Quotes About Abolition

The moral and rational perceptions of the slave-holder are still more perverted than those of the slave; oppression is more debasing and injurious to the intellect of the oppressor than to that of the oppressed. The gains of unrighteousness have rendered the slave-holder more obstinately, more incurably blind, and inaccesssible to reason, than the slave.

It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath my feet, and somewhere out there, in the farmsteads and plantations ahead of me, swift retribution! Freedom! The bloody work of the Lord!

It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.

If I could see the abolition of slavery... I would sing my nunc dimittis with joy.

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.

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

Local issues have global ramifications.

It is a mistake to assume that all we have to do is guarantee the prosecution of the cop who killed Michael Brown. The major challenge of this period is to infuse a consciousness of the structural character of state violence into themovements that spontaneously arise.

Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law.