I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be…

— Gerrit Smith

If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better…

— Hilary Beckles

I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world.

— David Batstone

It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work,…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that…

— Laurence M. Keitt

The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity,…

— Ashley Montagu

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.…

— Abraham Lincoln

Although it has been fashionable to deny it, anti-slavery doctrines began to appear in Christian theology soon after the decline of Rome and were…

— Rodney Stark

“Bleeding Kansas and the Caning of Charles Sumner   The reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intense, and in many ways violent. In the…

— Lance T. Stewart

“We shall need all the anti-slavery feeling in the country, and more; you can go home and try to bring the people to your…

— Abraham Lincoln

The anti-slavery parties were also called spoilers, including the Republican party that went on not just to abolish slavery but they actually take over…

— Jill Stein

The British had this idea they were heroes in the anti-slavery movement but they also were beneficiaries of the slavery trade. It was a…

— Paterson Joseph

“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Historically, narratives of forgiveness were part of both the anti-slavery movement and the civil rights movement in America. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' for instance, was…

— Anthea Butler

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

— Frederick Douglass