Character Quote by John Quincy 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

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

— Arthur Bryant

“Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“...there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any other source;…

— John Rollin Ridge

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

— Ed Davey

I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the blacks. It…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was the key…

— Andrew P. Napolitano

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source…

— Benjamin Franklin

“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

“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction”

— Simón Bolívar

“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

Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking…

— David Rice