Balance Quote by John C. Calhoun

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

— Homer

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

— Dianne Feinstein

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

— Salmon P. Chase

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit…

— Walt Whitman

Slavery is a condition imposed upon individuals or races not sufficiently able to protect or defend themselves, and so long as a race or…

— Marcus Garvey

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless…

— Germaine Greer

This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their…

— William Loughton Smith

That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves…

— Abraham Lincoln

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

— George Mason

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

— Salmon P. Chase