Age Quote by Robert E. Lee

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

— Robert E. Lee

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt

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

— Arthur Bryant

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

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

Slavery was one of the worst crimes against humanity and endured by those who built our great nation.

— Al N. Green

There is no slavery but ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being…

— Booker T. Washington

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

I believe that modern slavery is the most outrageous assault on the rights of an individual. It is something that touches me deeply because…

— Wagner Moura