God knows Quote by Robert J. Rayback

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

— 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

“Even though we are peripheral to the slavery, our action is necessary to overcome a horrific evil.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning…

— Samuel Morse

“I never will, I never can, worship a God who upholds the institution of slavery. Such a God I hate and defy. I neither…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears…

— R.J. Rushdoony

“Slavery is an element of the human heart...to our ruin.”

— Klaus Kinski

“Slavery is simply a possession of the mind, before the individual submits their spiritual component to the will of another person or deity.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Arthur Bryant

“All that a man has in this world is his own will, the freedom to do what he desires. Taking away that is the…

— Alec Hutson

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and…

— John Quincy Adams