Slaves - Slavery Quotes

My mother always declared that I was an abolitionist at the age of three. During the Garrison riot in Boston the portrait of George Thompson was hidden under a bed in our house for safe-keeping, and I am told that I used to go and comfort ‘the good man who helped poor slaves’ in his […]

If he’s – the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a – is a noble institution I would – I would strongly reject that assumption – that John Ashcroft is a open-minded, inclusive person.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but many regulating it. It is not then, we conclude, immoral.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in belief and practice. He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

There is another ambition that ought to belong to all writers; to bear witness and shout aloud, every time it is possible, insofar as our talent allows, for those who are enslaved as we are. That is the very ambition you questioned in your article and I shall consistently refuse your right to question it […]