Practical Quotations » Slave

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:08:25 +0000

And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus [through slavery] to trample on the rights of the other…

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:01:34 +0000

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other…

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:35:48 +0000

Slavery is . . . an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Charles Carroll

Charles Carroll — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:22:27 +0000

Why keep alive the question of slavery? It is admitted by all to be a great evil.

George Washington

George Washington — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:30:08 +0000

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it [slavery].

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:07:40 +0000

The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented by all the southern patriots of the Revolution.

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:24:42 +0000

[N]ever in my life did I own a slave.

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:21:39 +0000

I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in . . . abhorrence.