Christianity Quote by Isabella Bird

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

— Samuel Hopkins

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to…

— Abraham Lincoln

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

— H. G. Wells

“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

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me,…

— Frederick Law Olmsted

“My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning…

— Samuel Morse

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to…

— James F. Cooper

“Slavery is as old as civilization, and has been practiced all over the world. It was ubiquitous in antiquity, and is taken for granted…

— David Livingstone Smith

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

Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right…

— Anonymous

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute…

— Anonymous