#abolition

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. ↗

— James Madison

#capital #capital punishment #entire #fair #full

I believe that in the end the abolition of war, the maintenance of world peace, the adjustment of international questions by pacific means will come through the force of public opinion, which controls nations and peoples. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#adjustment #believe #come #controls #end

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. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#colored #race #race-america #race-relations #racism

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

— William Wilberforce

#accomplish #christian #great-britain #heard #hope

There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say. ↗

— Gamaliel Bailey

#am #body #clark #clinton #counties

If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice. Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders. "Perhaps he writes free verse," she suggested cunningly. A stir of approval answered her. Mice are all for people being free, so that they too can be freed form their eternal task of cheering prisoners--so that they can stay snug at home, nibbling the family cheese, instead of sleeping out in damp straw on a diet of stale bread. ↗

— Margery Sharp

#prison #prison-abolition #diet

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

— Wendell Phillips

#immortality #memory #slavery #men

Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in which men do the least possible violence to each other (which is to state just the negative of it), then we are committed not simply to try to avoid violence ourselves, but to try to destroy patterns of violence which already exist. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#prison #violence #men

In my view, it is an error to think about 'alternatives to prison' if what we mean by that is 'electronic bracelets,' through which people are subject to computer-monitored house arrest, or granting fuller surveillance and disciplinary powers and technologies to other state agencies, such as welfare and mental health, through 'transcarceration' policies...We need to decrease, not increase, the means by which the state, in its multifarious networks of authority, controls human lives and selectively incapacitates people who, no less than others, have the potential to contribute to the improvement of hte human condition. ↗

— Karlene Faith

#prison #transcarceration #faith

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati. ↗

— Gamaliel Bailey

#cincinnati #doubt #free #i #i do