Country Quote by James Forten

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the…

— Gerry Spence

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 ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

— Benjamin Franklin

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their…

— Edmund Burke

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

Slavery is the offspring of darkness.

— Simon Bolivar

It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were…

— Mary Virginia Terhune

Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Simón Bolívar

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

— Chrystia Freeland

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil…

— Robert E. Lee

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