American slavery Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

— H. G. Wells

But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only…

— Abraham Lincoln

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty…

— John Woolman

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

— Anonymous

“The former slave told his audience that “there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this great and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools…

— Michael Moore

“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction”

— Simón Bolívar

Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right…

— Anonymous

Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that…

— John Locke

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

— Robert Purvis

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

— Abraham Lincoln