“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
“My interest in Africa was, I believe, first aroused by a hatred of the slave trade.”— Sir Harry Johnston
“It is a time that we should look upon this matter of slavery in a new light.”— Judah Philip Benjamin
“Slavery is a form of parasitism, and for a parasite to thrive, its host must be kept alive.”— Adam Hochschild
“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
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!”— Patrick Henry
“I am an abolitionist from the start to the end. I am for the total, unconditional, and immediate abolition of slavery.”— Martin Delany
“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