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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day, was permitted under the Mosaic dispensation; but it is contrary to the whole tenor of Christianity; and a system which lowers man as an intellectual and responsible being is no less morally than politically wrong.

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.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Religion and slavery are incompatible.