Denied Quote by Eric Foner

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave…

— Kevin Bales

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

— Leo Tolstoy

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

— Kevin Bales

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

— Malcolm X

“It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon the bench…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

...So Englishmen saw it. Lincoln's insincerity was regarded as proven by two things: his earlier denial of any lawful right or wish to free…

— Sheldon Vanauken

Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right to improve…

— Eric Foner

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

— L. Neil Smith

“They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and…

— Shelby Foote

“Lincoln, who had a personal aversion to blacks and feared they could never be absorbed into a white society, wanted to see them settled…

— James A. Michener

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what…

— Kevin Bales