Atheism Quote by Lucretia Mott

If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further…

— John Brown

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of…

— Lucy Stone

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You don't fight injustice by asking to become part of the system that committed the injustice against you in the first place. That's like…

— Carmen Yulin Cruz

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all…

— Daniel Webster

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

— H. G. Wells

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold…

— Susan Sontag

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

“I decline to be a slave to precedents or practice I cannot understand or defend on a moral basis”

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I…

— Charles Sumner