Advocacy Quote by Gerrit Smith

“to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and,…

— Frederick Douglass

“There have been, and may be again, great individual thinkers, in a general atmosphere of mental slavery.”

— John Stuart Mill

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

— Anonymous

“The influences and associations that had always surrounded him, blinded him to the inherent wrong at the bottom of the system of Slavery. He…

— Solomon Northup

“The former slave told his audience that “there is little necessity on this occasion to speak at length and critically of this great and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

It is the man who can think of no alternative to his enslavement who is truly a slave.

— Wendell Berry

“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.”

— Robert Ingersoll

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass

“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty…

— John Woolman

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

— Thomas Jefferson

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition…

— Horace Mann