Abolition Quote by George Washington

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

— Gore Vidal

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

— Robert Dale Owen

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily…

— John Adams

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their…

— William Loughton Smith

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

I hope that young people especially will begin to have a better understanding of slavery and its effects, which are still evident today, to…

— Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see…

— George Washington

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

— Jesse Jackson

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the…

— William H. Seward

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

— Robert E. Lee

“Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe