abolition quotes

We are nearer today to the ideal of the abolition of poverty and fear from the lives of men and women than ever before in any land.

- Herbert Clark Hoover
  Presidential campaign speech, 22 Oct.

   ThetheoryoftheCommunistsmay be summedup inthe single sentence: Abolition of private property.

- Karl Heinrich Marx
  The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore,1888).

What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.

- Karl Heinrich Marx
In Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Correspondence (1934).

I am sure that the immediate abolition of the slave trade is the first, the principal, the most indispensable act of policy, of dutyand of justice the legislature of this country has to take, if it is indeed their wish to secure those important objects† For we continue to this hour a barbarous traffic in slaves, we continue it even yet, in spite of all our great and undeniable pretensions as civilisation.

-William known as  theYounger Pitt
  Speech to the House of Commons, 2 Apr.The House did not abolish slavery until1806.

My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)† The most improper job of any man is bossing other men.

-J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
  Letter to ChristopherTolkien, 29 Apr.