We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
Gerrit Smith | to judge of slavery
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
Gerrit Smith | Slavery
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
Gerrit Smith | The Southern slave
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power – of assuming God’s place and relation towards his fellow-men.
Gerrit Smith | Master / Slave
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
Gerrit Smith | anti-slavery cause
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Slavery – Edmund Burke
Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty
Samuel Johnson – Slavery
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
