1. abolitionist - Noun
2. abolitionist - Adjective
A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. Abraham Lincoln
Critiques of the prison industrial complex undertaken by abolitionist activists and scholars are very much linked to critiques of the global persistence of racism. Antiracist and other social justice movements are incomplete with attention to the politics of imprisonment. Angela Davis
I am not a copyright reformer. I am a copyright abolitionist. Nina Paley
I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible. Ava DuVernay
The Abolitionist... must see that he has neither the right or power of operating except by moral means and suasion. Robert E. Lee
If Washington or Jefferson or Madison should utter upon his native soil today the opinions he entertained and expressed upon this question, he would be denounced as a fanatical abolitionist. George William Curtis