Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

Every slave is a stolen man.

I am a firm believer in slavery.

I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

I think enslavement has evolved to what may seem appropriate to this day's generation. Modern enslavement is imprisonment.

The existence of slavery cast the shadow of hypocrisy over the otherwise noble proclamation of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence.

Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us redouble our efforts so that the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 'no one shall be held in slavery or servitude' - ring true.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

Slavery can never be abolished.