Absurdity Quote by William H. Seward

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

— Mikhail Bakunin

I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

“The prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do…

— Gerrit Smith

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

— H. G. Wells

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

— Andrew Johnson

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

— Salmon P. Chase

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and…

— Fanny Kemble

“Perhaps the mildest form of the system of slavery is to be seen in the State of Kentucky.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

— Anonymous

Whoever says State necessarily says domination, and, consequently, slavery; a State without slavery, open or concealed, is inconceivable: that is why we are enemies…

— Mikhail Bakunin