Believe Quote by Robert E. Lee

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

— Robert E. Lee

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their…

— William Loughton Smith

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life

— Frederick Douglass

I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

We believe slavery was abolished with Abraham Lincoln; unfortunately, human slavery is alive and well.

— Marisol Nichols

You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even…

— Rose Macaulay

Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion…

— John Brown

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which…

— John C. Calhoun

“Bear in mind, now, that most of this work was done by men who had no intention whatever, when they enlisted, of making war…

— Bruce Catton