William Barr Quotes

Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.

Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

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

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution. [American Slavery]

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.

Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

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?

Slavery is a wrong to each individual enslaved; and not merely to the first of a series. Natural law, therefore, as much forbids the enslaving of the child, as if the wrong of enslaving the parent had never been perpetrated.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

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.

Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Slavery is the negation of all law, and any law which would perpetuate it would be a sacrilege.

The enslavement of Africans [in America] built the world's strongest economy.