Compromise Quote by William Lloyd Garrison

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be…

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much…

— Alexander Herzen

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and…

— John Quincy Adams

The tools to crush modern slavery exist, but the political will is lacking.

— Sheryl WuDunn

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

— Gerrit Smith

There is no slavery but ignorance.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Benjamin Franklin

Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other…

— Frederick Douglass

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

— Abraham Lincoln

Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution…

— Thomas Jefferson

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.

— Rachel Naomi Remen