Acknowledge Quote by Thaddeus Stevens

“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

“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

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

However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

— Samuel Hopkins

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute…

— Anonymous

It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to…

— William Lloyd Garrison

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

— Theodore Dwight Weld

All religion is slavery.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the…

— Gerry Spence

When we hear the word 'slavery,' it can be easy to dismiss it as a relic, a crime from the history books, a shameful…

— Penny Mordaunt