Slaveholding Quotes
7 quotes by 6 authors
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I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people…
— Stephen A. Douglas
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I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon…
— Stephen A. Douglas
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I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other…
— John C. Calhoun
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It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
— Gerrit Smith
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The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was…
— John Henninger Reagan
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I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed,…
— Frederick Douglass
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Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race,…
— Roger B. Taney
Who Wrote These Slaveholding Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 7 Slaveholding Quotes as follows: