Acknowledge Quote by Robert E. Lee

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

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

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

There is no slavery but ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil...

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Al N. Green

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 don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

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

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the…

— Booker T. Washington

We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to…

— Abraham Lincoln

I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown