Atheism Quote by Herman Melville

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

— Benjamin Franklin

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution…

— Thomas Jefferson

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

— Patrick Henry

Slavery is the nagging, unrelenting shame of America that continues to deny the true promise of the country to too many its citizens. If…

— John Hickenlooper

Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a…

— Charles Darwin

I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by…

— Thaddeus Stevens

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

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till…

— Millard Fillmore

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

— Derrick Jensen

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

— Jose Marti

I am a firm believer in slavery.

— Brigham Young