Abhorrence Quote by Patrick Henry

I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil.

— Patrick Henry

I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves scars that…

— Ani DiFranco

If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe…

— Kailash Satyarthi

We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more…

— George W. Bush

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

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

Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.

— Jose Marti

Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are.

— Gary Haugen

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

— Thomas Jefferson

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be…

— Abraham Lincoln