Been Quote by Lysander Spooner

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such…

— Angelina Grimke

Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority.…

— Gerry Spence

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not…

— Lysander Spooner

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master…

— Maria Montessori

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the…

— Kailash Satyarthi

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

— Saint Augustine

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

— H. G. Wells

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 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

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is…

— Isabella Bird

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to…

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept…

— Abraham Lincoln