Believe Quote by Derrick Jensen

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

— Pope Leo X

All religion is slavery.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Claims like 'Slavery is wrong' are not fully common-sensical, so they must be at least partly theoretical.

— Catherine Wilson

Religion and slavery are incompatible.

— B. R. Ambedkar

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to…

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to…

— James F. Cooper

I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by…

— James Henry Hammond

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

— Desmond Tutu

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;

— Solomon Northup

“Just listen to Frederick Douglass, a nineteenth-century slave who taught himself how to read and write, as he expresses his view of how Christian…

— Gregory A. Boyd

“The slavery debate alerts us to self-justifying tendencies at work in how we use the Bible. Whenever our interpretation leads to injustice, oppression, or…

— Alice Mathews

It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and…

— Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner