Begets Quote by Hinton Rowan Helper

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

— Simón Bolívar

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking…

— David Rice

There is no slavery but ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

— John Adams

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

— George Mason

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

“Slavery is simply a possession of the mind, before the individual submits their spiritual component to the will of another person or deity.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mailbag, a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that…

— John Locke