Against Slavery Quotes
- Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade… — Charles Darwin
- John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun.… — Frederick Douglass
- The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that slave labor was… — John Coleman
- The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
- We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name… — Horace Greeley
- I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves. — H. L. Mencken
- Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. — Frederick Douglass
- Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark...… — Dwight D. Eisenhower