Abolition Quote by George Clymer

“The Great Spirit, who made all things, made everything for some use, and whatever use he design'd anything for, that use it should always…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The orator acknowledg'd the fault, but laid it upon the rum; and then endeavored to excuse the rum by saying, "The Great Spirit, who…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Thus, when the slave asks for virtuous freedom, the cunning slaveholder, knowing his ignorance, cheats him with a dose of vicious dissipation, artfully labelled…

— Frederick Douglass

“Before democracy, chattel slavery in America was born”

— Michelle Alexander

Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no…

— Frederick Douglass

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

— Robert Dale Owen

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

— Abraham Lincoln

“slavery was an economic institution of the first importance. It had been the basis of Greek economy and had built up the Roman Empire.…

— Eric Williams

“The American Constitution was carefully rigged by the noteholders, land speculators, rum runners, and slave holders who were the Founding Fathers, so that it…

— G. William Domhoff

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other…

— Frederick Douglass

Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life

— Frederick Douglass

“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of offenses--like child…

— Amy Watkins