Principles Quote by James Oglethorpe

“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

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them…

— William H. Seward

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Slavery is as much about the psychological control of the master over the slave as of the physical domination, cruelty and exploitation which we…

— Gabrielle Palmer

We are the slaves of slaves

— William Nicholson

“Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

“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

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.

— Abraham Lincoln

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

— Euripides

We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.

— Ava DuVernay

"We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element of strength to those who had their service, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

“How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.”

— Colson Whitehead