Cases Quote by Roger Brooke Taney

The law is the public conscience.

— Thomas Hobbes

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

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

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

— Gerrit Smith

Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery.…

— Jack Parsons

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government…

— Lysander Spooner

“Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept…

— Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of governments… And…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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 not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

— Saint Augustine

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

— H. G. Wells

Social rules are susceptible to moral analysis. This is, again, relatively familiar in the domestic case, where we now condemn slavery as unjust. And…

— Thomas Pogge