Bible Quote by Jefferson Davis

“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

It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to…

— William Lloyd Garrison

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

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

— Samuel Hopkins

If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its…

— Jefferson Davis

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

— Desmond Tutu

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

How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned?

— Michael R. Burch

“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

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

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

— Voltaire

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

— Alfred Marshall