Character Quote by Saint Augustine

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

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;

— Solomon Northup

“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 always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

— Angelina Grimke

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

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to…

— Lysander Spooner

Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned.…

— Frederic Bastiat

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

— Jonathan Swift

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each…

— Lysander Spooner

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

— John Adams

My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of…

— Wole Soyinka

The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any where; not…

— Lysander Spooner