Abolition Quotes

Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you,...

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

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and fin...

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I w...

Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go ...

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

How grossly are they mistaken in imagining slavery to be disallowed by the Alcoran! Are not the two ...

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed...

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has no...

...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & be...

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than a...

...The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evi...

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...

When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is really hideous, and "compassion...

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec...

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animal...

I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent wit...

We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is mor...

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only...

If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present para...

Animals are property. There are laws that supposedly protect animal interestsin being treated “human...

Being vegan is easy. Are there social pressures that encourage you to continue to eat, wear, and use...

If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is n...

The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welf...

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your...

To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a bein...

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we ...

So it is always preferable to discuss the matter of veganism in a non-judgemental way. Remember that...

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation...

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan...

I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally jus...

Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personh...

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps...

Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the...

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

There are some animal advocates who say that to maintain that veganism is the moral baseline is obje...

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself...

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