The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make…

The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were inherently subordinate…

— Clint Smith

And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people,…

— Lysander Spooner

I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham]…

— George Saunders

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose…

— Abraham Lincoln

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will…

— Henry David Thoreau

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't…

— Jesse Jackson

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys…

— Bill Ayers

“Well," said Miss Ophelia, "do you think slavery right or wrong?" "I'm not going to have any of your horrid New England directness, cousin,"…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Ally may be Evan’s by law, but she’s mine by nature. And in a battle between lions, no one gives a fuck about what’s…

— S.L. Jennings

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

— Frederic Bastiat