Famous quotes containing the words abolitionist and/or movement:
“...I am an abolitionist for the sake of my own raceContact with the African degenerates our white raceI find the association with them injurious to my childkeenly as I watch to prevent it & his faithful nurse to help me ... She is a good woman & so are many of themStill the race is a degraded one ...”
—Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818?)
“Prostration is our natural position. A wormlike movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.”
—Wyndham Lewis (18821957)