Accustomed Quote by Susan B. Anthony

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage,…

— Samuel Hopkins

“Oh! How heavily the weight of slavery pressed upon me then. I must toil day after day, endure abuse and taunts and scoffs, sleep…

— Solomon Northup

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in…

— George Mason

“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

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

Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that…

— John Locke

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

In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in…

— Mark Twain

How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to…

— Mahatma Gandhi