Community Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave…

— Abraham Lincoln

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property…

— William H. Seward

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government…

— Lysander Spooner

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept…

— Abraham Lincoln

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not…

— Lysander Spooner

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute…

— Anonymous

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged…

— Abraham Lincoln

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West.…

— David Mamet

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and…

— William H. Seward

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

— H. G. Wells