Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery."
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Abolition Of Slavery
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George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"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."
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow."
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"I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery."
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"I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one HONESTman, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever."
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"My great and exceeding joy over these stupendous achievements, especially over the abolition of slavery (which had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life), was slightly tinged with a feeling of sadness."
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