Abhorrence Quote by John Adams

“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

... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from…

— Susan B. Anthony

“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

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to…

— Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in slavery.

— Brigham Young

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion…

— John Brown

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.

— Herman Melville

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

— Gerrit Smith

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

— Anonymous

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

— Nicholas D. Kristof

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed…

— Millard Fillmore

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