Abolitionist Quote by John Brown

Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the…

— James Otis

“In the end, we live to serve the Saviour, who saved us from all slavery in the flesh. And make us awake in a…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“They looked at me and asked me to be merciful; they did not command, they begged ... asking for the pity that lay dormant…

— Baroness Orczy

“God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, and…

— Robert J. Rayback

At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!

— Pope Francis

A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

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

Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if…

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

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

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

— Henry Highland Garnet

Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to…

— Primo Levi