Country Quote by Frederick Douglass

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed…

— Millard Fillmore

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are…

— Colson Whitehead

“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction”

— Simón Bolívar

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil...

— Abraham Lincoln

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil…

— Robert E. Lee

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source…

— Benjamin Franklin

Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Slavery is not a horror safely confined to the past; it continues to exist throughout the world, even in developed countries like France and…

— Kevin Bales

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and…

— Alex Haley

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt