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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. Roger Nash Baldwin

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx

Happiness Religion People First Abolition Requisite

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day. Robert E. Lee

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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. Ernest Hemingway

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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 it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. George Washington

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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy Change Heart Adjusted Abolition Spirit Forms Requires Mechanical Thing

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me. Marquis de Lafayette

Death Me Judgment Punishment Abolition Shall Until Infallibility Human Ask

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. Angelina Grimke

Women World Down Abolition Women Are Upside Upside Down Turning

Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the vote well before the United States. Eventually, we got smart and borrowed these egalitarian innovations. Bari Weiss

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Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released. Clint Smith

Released Frederick Abolition Seemed Fantasy Slaves

The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that. Gloria Steinem

Remember Abolition Division Were Movements Should United Suffrage Damaged

America is exceptional, it is asserted, because, with the exception of the abolition of slavery, it has been able to extend the promise of liberal reform mostly peacefully, through its democratic institutions. Greg Grandin

Liberal Has-Been Promise Able Abolition Exception Through Exceptional Institutions Democratic Mostly Because Been Reform America Asserted Peacefully Extend Slavery

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

Regret Trial Punishment Abolition Entire Fair Capital Capital Punishment Should Full

Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just happen - people made it happen. And marriage equality didn't just happen, either - people made it happen. Marianne Williamson

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Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case. Opal Tometi

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And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes. Robert Walpole

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One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall. Walter Gropius

Has-Been Abolition Outstanding New Been Wall Achievements Separating Function Technique

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