Church Quote by Bill Ayers

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

— H. L. Mencken

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery…

— Paul Watson

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become…

— Ulysses S. Grant

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

“Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history of our…

— William Silverman

So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the…

— William Wilberforce

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.

— Anonymous

“American slavery was specifically racist slavery. It could not exist apart from racism, and could not be separated from it. Slavery was a massive…

— Joel McDurmon

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in…

— Mary Astell

As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always…

— Sterling K. Brown