Any Quote by Lysander Spooner

The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were inherently subordinate…

— Clint Smith

And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people,…

— Lysander Spooner

I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham]…

— George Saunders

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose…

— Abraham Lincoln

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will…

— Henry David Thoreau

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't…

— Jesse Jackson

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

The anti-slavery party contends that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that…

— Laurence M. Keitt

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips - these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys…

— Bill Ayers

“Well," said Miss Ophelia, "do you think slavery right or wrong?" "I'm not going to have any of your horrid New England directness, cousin,"…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Ally may be Evan’s by law, but she’s mine by nature. And in a battle between lions, no one gives a fuck about what’s…

— S.L. Jennings

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for…

— Frederic Bastiat