Any Quote by Samuel Hopkins

... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from…

— Susan B. Anthony

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be…

— Harriet Tubman

At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!

— Pope Francis

The service of sin is perfect slavery.

— Matthew Henry

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to…

— James F. Cooper

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source…

— Benjamin Franklin

For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social…

— Kevin Bales

“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

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them…

— William H. Seward

“We know many among ourselves who have given themselves up to bonds, in order that they might ransom others. Many, too, have surrendered themselves…

— Clement of Rome

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Modern slavery - be it bonded labor, involuntary servitude, or sexual slavery - is a crime and cannot be tolerated in any culture, community,…

— Hillary Clinton