Bread Quote by Abraham Lincoln

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

— Desmond Tutu

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

— Samuel Hopkins

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

“My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning…

— Samuel Morse

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

— Catherine Wilson

I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by…

— James Henry Hammond

No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong?…

— Mira Sorvino

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is…

— Isabella Bird

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to…

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to…

— James F. Cooper