Abolitionism was a movement to end private slavery. Libertarianism is a movement to end private and public slavery.

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Animal welfare is a blatant lie. Anyone who truly cares for the welfare of another, would never dream of exploiting them. For just as when slavery is deeply set into the psyche of a nation, those crying for slave welfare and not abolitionism, argue in favor of slavery and exploitation, and thus push eventual abolitionism further into the future.

— Mango Wodzak

Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.

— Joaquim Nabuco

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

— Hannah More

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

— Lucretia Mott