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Slavery Quotes by Robert E. Lee
- There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
- While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all…
- So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the…
- So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
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- I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin
- Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin
- The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? — W. E. B. Du Bois