Belonging Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due…

— Abraham Lincoln

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

— Beau Willimon

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil…

— Robert E. Lee

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom…

— Frederick Douglass

. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained…

— Robert Purvis

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and…

— Amber Rudd

Slavery is the nagging, unrelenting shame of America that continues to deny the true promise of the country to too many its citizens. If…

— John Hickenlooper

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

— Robert E. Lee

For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.

— Colson Whitehead

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the…

— Booker T. Washington