Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.
Slaves - Slavery Quotes
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
Salvation through slavery is worthless. Salvation from slavery is inestimable.
Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.
This filthy enactment (The Fugitive Slave Law) was made in the nineteenth century, by people who could read and write. I will not obey it, by God.
This abomination must have an end. And there is a superior bench reserved in Heaven for those who hasten it.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is man may become robots.
No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate.
A slave, branded on the forehead by his master, saved him when proscribed. Thus, while the life of the master was preserved, his infamy was perpetuated.