Civil war Quote by Stephen A. Douglas

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

— Lisa Kristine

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

— Ernestine Rose

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

— Saint Augustine

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little…

— John Ridley

There is no slavery but ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

— Abraham Lincoln

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

— Frances Harper

More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished - not even here, in…

— Josh Hawley

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

— Lawrence Hill

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

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of…

— Winston Churchill