Abolition Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

— Arthur Bryant

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

— Benjamin Franklin

Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and…

— Amber Rudd

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

— Martin Van Buren

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

— John Adams

Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking…

— David Rice

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being…

— Booker T. Washington

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

— John Adams

“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism, and…

— Abraham Lincoln