Curse Quote by Theodore Dwight Weld

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty…

— John Woolman

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

— Frederick Douglass

We're all slaves to death is our biological curse and thus a form of slavery.

— Jeremy Limn

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 the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

— Arthur Bryant

“God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, and…

— Robert J. Rayback

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

— John Adams

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

— John Ridley

I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by…

— Thaddeus Stevens

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

— Benjamin Franklin

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed…

— Millard Fillmore

“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction”

— Simón Bolívar