Argument Quote by Desmond Tutu

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

— Samuel Hopkins

“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

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

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

— H. G. Wells

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

— Dan Savage

The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the…

— Steven Pinker

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

— Dan Savage

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson

“Slavery is as old as civilization, and has been practiced all over the world. It was ubiquitous in antiquity, and is taken for granted…

— David Livingstone Smith