Arguing Quote by Abraham Lincoln

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for…

— Abraham Lincoln

“12.       “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”   Abraham Lincoln”

— Rriiver Nyile

“To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

“By the way he reacted, you would have thought I told him that slavery never happened. He laid into me with the same gusto…

— Chelsea Handler

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

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

— Theodore Dwight Weld

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

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

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

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am a firm believer in slavery.

— Brigham Young

“He tried to make his lust comical, to show how absurd it all was, easily the most wretched form of human struggle, the very…

— Saul Bellow