Destroying Quote by Millard Fillmore

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed…

— Millard Fillmore

“God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, and…

— Robert J. Rayback

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

— Arthur Bryant

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, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should…

— Leo Tolstoy

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil…

— Robert E. Lee

The evil of slave trade can try to prove that God is not fair,but trust me He is there and He is fair.

— Peter Marley

What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain…

— William Lloyd Garrison

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

— Martin Van Buren

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

— Chrystia Freeland

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

— Theodore Dwight Weld

I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by…

— Thaddeus Stevens