Addresses Quote by John Shelby Spong

“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

“Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible’s approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the…

— Steven Pinker

“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

“For the African race, such as Providence has made it, and where He has placed it in America, slavery was the righteous, the best,…

— Robert Lewis Dabney

“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

“A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave…

— Glen Chambers

“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized)…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Give a slave slaves, and he will support slavery.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

— H. G. Wells

“Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the…

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery was ungodly, unrighteous, and unbiblical.

— Tony Evans