Quote by Abraham Lincoln

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the…

— Abraham Lincoln

“To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

“We preach FREEDOM, not silenced slavery. Stop being a hypocritical element. Do to others what you can accept yourself.”

— Olawale Daniel

“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

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and,…

— Frederick Douglass

“If any man at this day sincerely believes that a proper division of local from federal authority, or any part of the Constitution, forbids…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Perhaps slavery is harder for a person who has known freedom. Perhaps it does not matter. The”

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom, than have peaceful slavery”

— Anonymous

“Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to…

— Abraham Lincoln