Constitution Quote by Anonymous

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

— Robert Dale Owen

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe…

— Kailash Satyarthi

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

— Lawrence Hill

I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see…

— George Washington

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be…

— Abraham Lincoln

But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void,…

— William H. Seward

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the…

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

— Angelina Grimke

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed…

— Millard Fillmore

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing…

— Maria Weston Chapman

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion…

— John Brown

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of thepeople who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them…

— Anonymous