Any Quote by Lysander Spooner

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

There has never been a prosecuted case of slavery. There's no criminality to it. So, it was just like, 'It's over,' and thus, because…

— Kenya Barris

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

— H. G. Wells

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.

— Granville Sharp

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

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

— Saint Augustine

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its…

— Jefferson Davis

Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the…

— Lysander Spooner