Am Quote by Samuel Hopkins

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

— Desmond Tutu

“The slavery debate alerts us to self-justifying tendencies at work in how we use the Bible. Whenever our interpretation leads to injustice, oppression, or…

— Alice Mathews

“Slavery is as old as civilization, and has been practiced all over the world. It was ubiquitous in antiquity, and is taken for granted…

— David Livingstone Smith

“Slavery and the Bible? First Corinthians 7:21 told slaves to take the opportunity to be free. Let me put forth that God commanded the…

— Gina Turner

“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

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Meditation on the holy Scriptures , free us from mental slavery.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“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 can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and…

— Solomon Northup

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is…

— Isabella Bird

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the…

— Samuel Hopkins

Slavery was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all…

— Jefferson Davis