--- title: "19 Slavery Wrong Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 19 Slavery Wrong quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Slavery Wrong sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c0/abraham-lincoln-88_presidential_if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong_2485986.png" --- > [If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c0/abraham-lincoln-88_presidential_if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong_2485986.png) > [It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shane-claiborne/it-s-not-that-hard-to-say-slavery-is-wrong-after-we-ve-abolished-it/) [Shane Claiborne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shane-claiborne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/363/shane-claiborne-960_hard_it-s-not-that-hard-to-say-slavery-is-wro_63027.png) > [“I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-am-naturally-anti-slavery-if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/056/abraham-lincoln-88_anti_i-am-naturally-anti-slavery-if-slavery-i_575152.png) > [If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howell-cobb/if-slaves-will-make-good-soldiers-then-our-whole-theory-of-slavery-is/) [Howell Cobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howell-cobb/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1c/howell-cobb-243019_civil-war_if-slaves-will-make-good-soldiers-then-o_1297469.png) > [There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-douglass/there-is-not-a-man-beneath-the-canopy-of-heaven-who-does-not-know/) [Frederick Douglass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-douglass/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8b/frederick-douglass-859_beneath_there-is-not-a-man-beneath-the-canopy-of_2331481.png) > [I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-am-naturally-anti-slavery-if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong-3/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e8/abraham-lincoln-88_anti_i-am-naturally-anti-slavery-if-slavery-i_3181546.png) > [It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dar-williams/it-s-a-collective-truth-that-slavery-is-wrong-that-child-labor-is/) [Dar Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dar-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/dar-williams-3902_child-labor_it-s-a-collective-truth-that-slavery-is_706227.jpg) > [Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/slavery-is-wrong-if-slavery-is-right-all-words-acts-laws-and/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef5/abraham-lincoln-88_constitution_slavery-is-wrong-if-slavery-is-right-all_1612886.png) > [Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-wilson/claims-like-slavery-is-wrong-are-not-fully-common-sensical-so-they/) [Catherine Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e65/catherine-wilson-12038_claims_claims-like-slavery-is-wrong-are-not-ful_874856.jpg) > [Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lysander-spooner/slavery-is-a-wrong-to-each-individual-enslaved-and-not-merely-to-the/) [Lysander Spooner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lysander-spooner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1c/lysander-spooner-3260_been_slavery-is-a-wrong-to-each-individual-en_752795.png) > [Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mamet/like-lincoln-said-if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong-and-i-feel/) [David Mamet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mamet/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/david-mamet-1178_feels_like-lincoln-said-if-slavery-is-not-wron_225040.jpg) > [I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-think-slavery-is-wrong-morally-and-politically-i-desire-that-it/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/072/abraham-lincoln-88_desire_i-think-slavery-is-wrong-morally-and-pol_3010606.png) > [I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-think-that-slavery-is-wrong-morally-socially-and-politically-i/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7dd/abraham-lincoln-88_desire_i-think-that-slavery-is-wrong-morally-so_30493.png) > [I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-apply-the-abraham-lincoln-test-for-moral-casuistry-if-slavery-is/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c0/christopher-hitchens-117_abraham_i-apply-the-abraham-lincoln-test-for-mor_2823179.jpg) > [The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-m-keitt/the-anti-slavery-party-contends-that-slavery-is-wrong-in-itself-and/) [Laurence M. Keitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-m-keitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4dd/laurence-m-keitt-92255_anti-slavery_the-anti-slavery-party-contends-that-sla_1364596.png) > [I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angelina-grimke/i-appeal-to-you-my-friends-as-mothers-are-you-willing-to-enslave-your/) [Angelina Grimke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angelina-grimke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/224/angelina-grimke-15316_children_i-appeal-to-you-my-friends-as-mothers-ar_3154837.png) > [I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/i-am-naturally-anti-slavery-if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong-2/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29d/abraham-lincoln-88_american-slavery_i-am-naturally-anti-slavery-if-slavery-i_819526.png) > [No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-sorvino/no-this-is-not-what-a-fair-god-would-do-and-why-does-it-not-say/) [Mira Sorvino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-sorvino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67f/mira-sorvino-11683_bible_no-this-is-not-what-a-fair-god-would-do_1539205.jpg) > [We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-wilson/we-call-slavery-is-wrong-a-moral-truth-because-there-is-a-specific/) [Catherine Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-wilson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94b/catherine-wilson-12038_argument_we-call-slavery-is-wrong-a-moral-truth-b_557972.jpg) ## Top authors on Slavery Wrong - [Abraham Lincoln 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/slavery-wrong/abraham-lincoln/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/slavery-wrong/#itemlist", "name": "Slavery Wrong Quotes", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Abraham Lincoln" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c0/abraham-lincoln-88_presidential_if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong_2485986.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c0/abraham-lincoln-88_presidential_if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong_2485986.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c0/abraham-lincoln-88_presidential_if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong_2485986.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” — Abraham Lincoln", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Shane Claiborne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shane-claiborne/it-s-not-that-hard-to-say-slavery-is-wrong-after-we-ve-abolished-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/363/shane-claiborne-960_hard_it-s-not-that-hard-to-say-slavery-is-wro_63027.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/363/shane-claiborne-960_hard_it-s-not-that-hard-to-say-slavery-is-wro_63027.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/363/shane-claiborne-960_hard_it-s-not-that-hard-to-say-slavery-is-wro_63027.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.” — Shane Claiborne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I am naturally anti-slavery. 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If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Mamet" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mamet/like-lincoln-said-if-slavery-is-not-wrong-nothing-is-wrong-and-i-feel/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/david-mamet-1178_feels_like-lincoln-said-if-slavery-is-not-wron_225040.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/david-mamet-1178_feels_like-lincoln-said-if-slavery-is-not-wron_225040.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa9/david-mamet-1178_feels_like-lincoln-said-if-slavery-is-not-wron_225040.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Like Lincoln said: \"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,\" and I feel the same way about the leftist…” — David Mamet", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. 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