If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. Mikhail Bakunin
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it on his love of justice. Abraham Lincoln
Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one. Maria Weston Chapman
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. Alexander Herzen
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. T H Huxley
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. Abraham Lincoln
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. James A Garfield
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. John Ruskin
Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself. Abraham Lincoln