“We have no patent for a specific remedy for slavery. But this we do believe, that if the entire system could be discussed, as a moral, social, and political evil, the people of the slave-holding States, themselves, would find out some way of removing it.”— Gamaliel Bailey
“It is a time that we should look upon this matter of slavery in a new light.”— Judah Philip Benjamin
“My interest in Africa was, I believe, first aroused by a hatred of the slave trade.”— Sir Harry Johnston
“Slavery is a form of parasitism, and for a parasite to thrive, its host must be kept alive.”— Adam Hochschild
“The administration is the creature of the slave power, and I will not be instrumental in its purposes.”— John Charles Frémont
“A man is no more a slave because he is born to a slave, than he is a sinner because he is born to a sinner.”— Lysander Spooner
“Whether other nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture.”— Heinrich Himmler
“We cannot suppose that God has made an order of beings, with such capacities and powers as negroes are possessed of, to be reduced by another part of his creation to the situation of brutes.”— Thomas Clarkson
“For the ownership of the land on which and from which a man must live is virtually the ownership of the man himself.”— Henry George
“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe