Being wrong Quote by Abraham Lincoln

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

It's not that hard to say slavery is wrong after we've abolished it.

— Shane Claiborne

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

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose…

— Abraham Lincoln

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

— Robert Dale Owen

“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right.…

— Christopher Hitchens

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

— Gerrit Smith

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should…

— Abraham Lincoln

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as…

— William H. Seward