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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat… — James F. Cooper
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England… — William Cowper
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? — William Cowper
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar… — Edward Hoagland
The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill… — Aberjhani
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from… — Abraham Lincoln
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up… — Abraham Lincoln
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. — Abraham Lincoln
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you,… — Abraham Lincoln
I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. — Abraham Lincoln
Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil... — Abraham Lincoln
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that… — Abraham Lincoln
When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is… — Abraham Lincoln
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. — Abraham Lincoln
Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of… — Abraham Lincoln
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it. — Abraham Lincoln
We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that… — Abraham Lincoln
Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done… — Abraham Lincoln
You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is… — Abraham Lincoln
I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under… — Abraham Lincoln
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to… — Abraham Lincoln
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And… — Abraham Lincoln
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves… — Abraham Lincoln

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