Appeals Quote by Charles Sumner

Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is…

— Elizabeth Van Lew

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all…

— Daniel Webster

I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the…

— Lucretia Mott

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed…

— Edward Gibbon

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

— Simon Bolivar

If you are still a slave can not control your ambition

— Mak_786

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just…

— John Brown

In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!

— Anonymous

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…

— Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

— Abraham Lincoln

“ When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn…

— N. K. Jemisin

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the…

— Gerry Spence