The idea that the West was economically successful because of slavery, it's just nonsense.
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.
The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.
The way animals are carted around reminds me of the slavery of my people. . . The slavery of animals has to be ended too.
Showing Respect Is not Slavery. . . and Must Be Taught
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether. . . it should be maintained or abolished.
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.
Slavery is a long slow process of dulling.
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters
I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.
Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.